DNS Question

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Steve Grosz

Hi,

I'm new to DNS and have what I think is a technical question. I have DSL
coming into our home, with 1 static IP. I'd like to have our server run DNS
so I don't have to depend on someone elses DNS server for our web pages and
email (also running on the same server). I can get 2 additional static IP's
to use with the DNS.

My questions are these:

1: How can I find some good instructions (prefer online) on how to setup
DNS
2: Do I need to forward any ports through our DSL modem to the specific
machine doing DNS

Our DSL modem does DHCP and NAT. Don't know if that will be a problem or
not.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!!

Steve
 
Word to the wise - don't do it unless you are just very curious to see how
it works. Do you have hardware to devote to a dedicated DNS server for your
domain, segregated/firewalled from the rest of your internal network? Also,
residential DSL goes up & down all the time; you won't have any redundancy
with your setup, so people won't be able to reach your server when that
happens. I wouldn't bother with this. Your ISP or registrar will probably do
the DNS hosting for free (included with whatever you pay for now) and may
even have a control panel you can access to control it yourself.

I'm sure someone will post instructions on how to do it if you really want
to, but thought I'd give you my unsolicited two cents. No hard feelings. ;-)
 
Will keep that in mind. I do have the hardware in place for this, extra
server all ready to go.

Info on how to do this would still be appreciated, if someone doesn't mind.

Thanks for the 2 cents though!! <G>

Steve

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
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Will keep that in mind. I do have the hardware in place for this,
extra server all ready to go.

Info on how to do this would still be appreciated, if someone doesn't
mind.

Thanks for the 2 cents though!! <G>

Steve

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Word to the wise - don't do it unless you are just very curious to
see how it works. Do you have hardware to devote to a dedicated DNS
server for your domain, segregated/firewalled from the rest of your
internal network? Also, residential DSL goes up & down all the time;
you won't have any redundancy with your setup, so people won't be
able to reach your server when that happens. I wouldn't bother with
this. Your ISP or registrar will probably do the DNS hosting for
free (included with whatever you pay for now) and may even have a
control panel you can access to control it yourself.

I'm sure someone will post instructions on how to do it if you
really want to, but thought I'd give you my unsolicited two cents.
No hard feelings. ;-)
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It's j ust a matter of going to the registrar (I use Network Solutions),
within your account, register your two DNS servers (they require two) as
hostname servers.

Then go to your domain name properties and specify these two nameservers as
the nameservers authorative for the domain.

Port remapping will be required to port remap UDP and TCP 53 to the internal
IP of the DNS server.

BUT, One BIGGG problem with NAT is that it will only allow you to port remap
one IP per port. So this may not be such a great idea since it would require
a non NAT segment, such as your DMZ. You'll need to leave these two servers
outside of the private LAN.

Then setup your zones, create your www record, mail record and the MX record
(if running mail).

As others have said, it's usually easier to let your ISP handle this or
someother 3rd party then doing it yourself.



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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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