public dns server

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Does anyone know how to create a public dns server. Im
just a tech for this company and they are throwing me into
setting up web stuff. Any ways they would like to have
their own dns servers. They are hosting about 14 web sites
and they park dns with whoever they registered the domain
with. Does anybody recommend this or not ? Im toaly lost
on this subject I can configure internal stuff just fine.
They are running Imail to on a web server that is running
IIS in a workgroup its the only pc to a full T1.Thanks in
advance..
 
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Does anyone know how to create a public dns server. Im
just a tech for this company and they are throwing me into
setting up web stuff. Any ways they would like to have
their own dns servers. They are hosting about 14 web sites
and they park dns with whoever they registered the domain
with. Does anybody recommend this or not ? Im toaly lost
on this subject I can configure internal stuff just fine.
They are running Imail to on a web server that is running
IIS in a workgroup its the only pc to a full T1.Thanks in
advance..
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This is usually not recommended, unless you really know what you are doing.

To be RFC compliant you need a minimum of three DNS servers to host your own
public DNS. You need two for the Public records that are totally separate
from the internal DNS. That is, internal machines cannot use the public DNS
server because internal machines usually need private IP addresses to access
sites and services locally. Then you need one DNS server for the internal
machines to use with the same named zones as the public DNS, only that the
records must have private IP addresses. You cannot mix these records in the
same zone on the same DNS server. A public DNS server must publish records
with public IP addresses, only.
 
Does anyone know how to create a public dns server. Im
just a tech for this company and they are throwing me into
setting up web stuff. Any ways they would like to have
their own dns servers. They are hosting about 14 web sites
and they park dns with whoever they registered the domain
with. Does anybody recommend this or not ? Im toaly lost
on this subject I can configure internal stuff just fine.
They are running Imail to on a web server that is running
IIS in a workgroup its the only pc to a full T1.Thanks in
advance..
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Okay, I'd recommend using only one point for DNS, which is why I
always recommend using a single registrar, not the cheapest deal this
week. The $15 you save over three years translates to several hundred
dollars in aggravation.

But, if you're completely new to DNS I'd recommend you not take over
your own DNS functions. Especially with a single server. You need
two servers, preferably on separate networks, to comply with DNS
guidelines (yes you can fake this with one server and two IP's but it
defeats the purpose). You'd also want a DNS for your internal
namespace that forwards to your public DNS for unresolved domain
names.

That said, you're on W2K, so pick up a copy of DNS on Windows 2000" by
Cricket Liu, et. al. and start reading. Or have a consultant do it
and pay attention. :)

Jeff
 
thanks kevin. I am pretty familiar with dns(I am no guru
but i am comfortable with it) I work for a consulting
company and we are located inside of a customers
wherehouse. We have two completely seperate networks. Our
clients network that I maintain all off their pc's servers
and office equipment. My companys computers are on this
network and we use it for internet and local file
sharing.This network I recently setup two domains on , I
added a 2003 Enterprise server and configured dns and
active directory then migrated all data over and shut down
the old domain.Then we have the full dedicated T1
connection and there is only one machine on it it's a 2000
advanced server that runs sql, iis, and imail. At one
point I think someone tried to set AD up on it and then
demoted it because youc an see the error in event viewer
referring to a zone that does not exist.
 
Thanks Jeff. I am pretty familiar with Dns I have set up
DNS on several servers mainly AD Integrated. Also I have
been setting up dns for all of the domains that we host
for.I have also went around and fixed the other dns
entries my boss and his partner have set up on their
various domain names.One guy uses buydomains and the other
guy uses godaddy. My Boss and his partner are odd cookies.
They own about 150 domain names to the two of them keep in
mind we only have a few paying clients. There are a total
of 4 employees in my company including me. The partners
are always looking for somekind of a get rich website.
Totally bizarre. Anyways off my nightmare. The one server
they have on the T1 will remain. This will be a project
they would like to add an additional server to become our
web server and the old one will host just email. Basically
what they told me is they would like to have some kind of
redundancy issue where if one of the servers crashed
another one would take over and also they would like to
have their own dns servers. So they would totaly buy two
new dns servers. (Actually they are cheap they would
probably have me make them) Also we do have another
seperate network with business dsl where we could park the
second dns server. To be honest this will hopefully be the
last project I do for this company. I am really spinning
my wheels here and going nowhere. I am used to maintaining
800 pcs now I have about 24...always bored..any further
suggestions would be much appreciated.
 
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