Newbie DNS Prob

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Steve

The situation is we had 4 NT4 servers, one of which was
not actually used for anything. We promoted this server
to the PDC and then upgraded it to a Win2k AD DC. I
thought this would be an easy task and all would be ok,
well it is except for DNS?

I am not a newbie IT person just a newbie in DNS and don't
really understand. The solution I think I want is to set
up a forwarder (being my router) but it says I can't
because this is a root server. We are a small company
that I don't think needs internal DNS configuration
(unless you tell me otherwise).

How can I get this machine to pass all DNS requests to my
router? Until I can achieve this I cannot go ahead with
installing Exchange2000, as I don't want to proceed with
DNS problems.
 
You actually want your AD DNS server to resolve ALL AD requests. Anything it
can't resolve will be forwarded. Without a DNS server for AD you will have
all kinds of problems.

To configure forwarding just delete the "." (dot) forward lookup zone that
is created by default. You may have to restart the DNS snapin to be able to
access the forwarders section.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
I am not a newbie IT person just a newbie in DNS and don't
really understand. The solution I think I want is to set
up a forwarder (being my router) but it says I can't
because this is a root server. We are a small company
that I don't think needs internal DNS configuration
(unless you tell me otherwise).
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If you're running AD, you had best be planning to run a DNS server. Any
piece of AD documentation would have made this abundantly clear.
How can I get this machine to pass all DNS requests to my
router? Until I can achieve this I cannot go ahead with
installing Exchange2000, as I don't want to proceed with
DNS problems.
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Unless you want AD to puke, set up internal name servers, set them to allow
dynamic updates, etc. Those are your internal NS's. Then you can just set
those up with forwarders to pass external requests to your ISP's name
server.
 
Danny,

Thanks a lot, I was actually half way to this solution
about 4hrs ago, but I didn't think it was working so I
gave up, ... ... ... I didn't do the all important Restart
the Snap-In, silly me assumed that I could delete the "."
then refresh and it would work, but oh no!


Rgds
Steve
 
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