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I went to input some DNS Forwarding addresses and its grayed out. It says
its a root server and cant do it. How do you change this so I can put
forward addresses in it.
 
Chris said:
I went to input some DNS Forwarding addresses and its grayed out. It
says its a root server and cant do it. How do you change this so I
can put forward addresses in it.
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Delete the zone named with a ".", close and re-open the console.
 
I tried that. I even uninstalled DNS and Reinstalled it. It still shows the
server setup as a Root Server.
 
Chris Peikert said:
I tried that. I even uninstalled DNS and Reinstalled it. It still
shows the server setup as a Root Server.
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Does it give you an error when you delete the Root zone?
 
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Chris Peikert said:
I tried that. I even uninstalled DNS and Reinstalled it. It still
shows the server setup as a Root Server.
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I'm surprised you cannot delete the Root zone (the period) from your Forward
Lookup Zones.

Curious, how does the server "show" you it is setup as a Root Server after
you deleted the Root zone?

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Even after deleting the zone, uninstall and reinstall everything looks
normal until you go into the Forwarding tab and its grayed out. It says you
cant add fowarders because its a root server. How it got setup that way im
not sure. Not sure what button I pushed.


"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
 
Chris Peikert said:
Even after deleting the zone, uninstall and reinstall everything looks
normal until you go into the Forwarding tab and its grayed out. It
says you cant add fowarders because its a root server. How it got
setup that way im not sure. Not sure what button I pushed.
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Delete the zone named with a dot".". Thne after you refresh the DNS console
(close and re-open) you can enable a forwarder.
 
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Chris Peikert said:
Even after deleting the zone, uninstall and reinstall everything looks
normal until you go into the Forwarding tab and its grayed out. It
says you cant add fowarders because its a root server. How it got
setup that way im not sure. Not sure what button I pushed.
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I'm not sure what you'r deleting, but you sure ain't deleting the actual
Root zone.

As Kevin said it looks like a period. I looks like this: "." (without the
quotes). You will find it in the console under the part where it says
"Forward Lookup Zones. It will be a period under that Forward Lookup Zones
section.

Can you explain exactly what you tried to delete please?

Ace
 
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