Win2K Server DNS Service
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Can someone smarter than I am explain to me how this service needs to be configured? My server has a fixed IP from my ISP, and it is the top level in my registered domain. The registration is maintained by Register.com. When I installed it, Win2KS established a default configuration in its DNS with my address as the SOA, and appears to be attempting to serve as the DNS authority for the entire subnet I'm on. I'm getting notices three times a week that the event log is full, and they're almost all caused by DNS. Obviously I've got something set wrong, but I can't figure out what it is! I don't want it controlling the subnet - that belongs to my ISP, and I try to be nice to him. Does anyone here have any experience in setting this up properly? Any clues would be most welcome:-D
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Can someone smarter than I am explain to me how this service needs to be configured? My server has a fixed IP from my ISP, and it is the top level in my registered domain. The registration is maintained by Register.com. When I installed it, Win2KS established a default configuration in its DNS with my address as the SOA, and appears to be attempting to serve as the DNS authority for the entire subnet I'm on. I'm getting notices three times a week that the event log is full, and they're almost all caused by DNS. Obviously I've got something set wrong, but I can't figure out what it is! I don't want it controlling the subnet - that belongs to my ISP, and I try to be nice to him. Does anyone here have any experience in setting this up properly? Any clues would be most welcome:-D
After the few attempts I made at trying to configure the Win 2K DNS server, I gave it up and am now happily using bind that comes with Debian Linux. With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains. With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway. You need to give it some other DNS addresses and this will kinda act as a stupid dumb DNS proxy so to speak. Nish p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free? It's seven o'clock On the dot I'm in my drop top Cruisin' the streets - Oh yeah I got a real pretty, pretty little thing that's waiting for me
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After the few attempts I made at trying to configure the Win 2K DNS server, I gave it up and am now happily using bind that comes with Debian Linux. With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains. With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway. You need to give it some other DNS addresses and this will kinda act as a stupid dumb DNS proxy so to speak. Nish p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free? It's seven o'clock On the dot I'm in my drop top Cruisin' the streets - Oh yeah I got a real pretty, pretty little thing that's waiting for me
Thanks for the thoughts, Nish. Considering that one of the wonderful advances that Micro$oft was pushing about Win2K was the death of WINS/ Long live DNS, you'd think they would make it easier to figure out! I think that what I need to do is configure it as a secondary server with a SOA record pointing to the domain name registrar's DNS server, then add records pointing to my ISP's DNS servers as peers; it would be nice to have some confirmation of that from someone who's done it, though. I notice that a lot of the errors I'm getting are cryptic references to ladp, kerberos, and such, and the problem is reported to be "server could not interpret format" or some such. No explanations, just noise... the usual.
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Can someone smarter than I am explain to me how this service needs to be configured? My server has a fixed IP from my ISP, and it is the top level in my registered domain. The registration is maintained by Register.com. When I installed it, Win2KS established a default configuration in its DNS with my address as the SOA, and appears to be attempting to serve as the DNS authority for the entire subnet I'm on. I'm getting notices three times a week that the event log is full, and they're almost all caused by DNS. Obviously I've got something set wrong, but I can't figure out what it is! I don't want it controlling the subnet - that belongs to my ISP, and I try to be nice to him. Does anyone here have any experience in setting this up properly? Any clues would be most welcome:-D
I believe you will find the answer in researching forward and reverse lookup zones.
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After the few attempts I made at trying to configure the Win 2K DNS server, I gave it up and am now happily using bind that comes with Debian Linux. With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains. With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway. You need to give it some other DNS addresses and this will kinda act as a stupid dumb DNS proxy so to speak. Nish p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free? It's seven o'clock On the dot I'm in my drop top Cruisin' the streets - Oh yeah I got a real pretty, pretty little thing that's waiting for me
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains. With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway. It can, I have installed several Win2k DNS servers, and they work perfectly good. Just install the server with standard options. Then go to the network config, and set the dns server ip address to the ip of the local machine. Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free? It is a decent dns server, works perfectly :-D - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Can someone smarter than I am explain to me how this service needs to be configured? My server has a fixed IP from my ISP, and it is the top level in my registered domain. The registration is maintained by Register.com. When I installed it, Win2KS established a default configuration in its DNS with my address as the SOA, and appears to be attempting to serve as the DNS authority for the entire subnet I'm on. I'm getting notices three times a week that the event log is full, and they're almost all caused by DNS. Obviously I've got something set wrong, but I can't figure out what it is! I don't want it controlling the subnet - that belongs to my ISP, and I try to be nice to him. Does anyone here have any experience in setting this up properly? Any clues would be most welcome:-D
Install the server with standard options. Then go to the network config, and set the dns server ip address to the ip of the local machine. - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"