Help setting up DNS?

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Steve G.

I have 1 box that I would like to have dedicated to DNS.
I have a 2nd box thats running IIS for several domains
and email, as well as shared drives/directories.

How would I set up the new DNS box to handle DNS for the
IIS box, email, etc. Both boxes have 2 NIC's in them.

Currently the DNS server comes from my DSL, a firewall, 1
network cable goes from the firewall to the DNS/IIS/mail
server box, and then the 2nd NIC has a cable that goes to
my switch. All other clients are plugged into the switch.

If anyone can point me in a direction, I would appreciate
it. The DNS service seems to be stopping through out the
day, and I have to have the machine restarted in order
for it to start serving up pages and email again.

Thanks!
Steve
 
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Steve G. said:
I have 1 box that I would like to have dedicated to DNS.
I have a 2nd box thats running IIS for several domains
and email, as well as shared drives/directories.

How would I set up the new DNS box to handle DNS for the
IIS box, email, etc. Both boxes have 2 NIC's in them.

Currently the DNS server comes from my DSL, a firewall, 1
network cable goes from the firewall to the DNS/IIS/mail
server box, and then the 2nd NIC has a cable that goes to
my switch. All other clients are plugged into the switch.

If anyone can point me in a direction, I would appreciate
it. The DNS service seems to be stopping through out the
day, and I have to have the machine restarted in order
for it to start serving up pages and email again.
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What is the DNS server using for a forwarder?
Do your machines have private addresses on them? If so which DNS is
resolving the local network?
This assumes that you are hosting the public zone on your local DNS server.
 
Kevin,

This is all new to me, so I'll try and answer your
questions as best I can. Someone else set up the DNS for
me a while back.

Not sure what you mean by forwarder.

Some of the devices have static IPs. The DNS resolving
the local network is the server, it has 1 NIC that is
multi-honed with 2 static IP's. The box that hands out
the DHCP addresses refers to that box as the DNS server.

I am hosting web pages with outside domain names, yes, if
that's what you're asking about public zone.

Steve
 
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Steve G. said:
Kevin,

This is all new to me, so I'll try and answer your
questions as best I can. Someone else set up the DNS for
me a while back.

Not sure what you mean by forwarder.

Some of the devices have static IPs. The DNS resolving
the local network is the server, it has 1 NIC that is
multi-honed with 2 static IP's. The box that hands out
the DHCP addresses refers to that box as the DNS server.

I am hosting web pages with outside domain names, yes, if
that's what you're asking about public zone.
Click to expand...

The public zone I'm talking about is the DNS zone that has the records for
the public domain for the public users. The records it hosts would only have
public IP addresses.
If you are using private addresses on your machines you would not be able to
use that DNS server for local users and the DNS for the local network would
have private addresses and could only be used by the local users.
Both DNS servers would forward to your ISP and not to each other.
300202 - HOW TO: Configure DNS for Internet Access in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300202
 
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