AD and DNS issues!

[cVaSanJose]

I have a W2K server at home with dual NICs. One is a wireless and the other one is the Linksys. The wirless card is obtaining the IP from the Linksys AP/Router (192.168.1.x), and the other NIC, I assigned 10.20.100.x. I want to make this server a Domain Controller. Here is my problem...

During the AD installaton, it ask for the DNS server, which one do I use? Do I make the SBC DNS or my own DNS?
Do I have to install DNS on the server first before I run dcpromo?
Thanks

 

[neutec]

yes, Install DNS on your server but do not configure it yet. Then run DCPROMO and it will warn you that DNS is not configured/installed. Let dcpromo configure DNS for you. It will then do the rest.

 

[oceanid1]

Your question was should you use you own dns My questionis what do you need you own dns server for? do you have a registered domain name? if you are doing internal resolution you can create a dns server for your internal clients if you are going to run internet related applications you may want to create an internal and external dns server or do forwarding to your isp
It all has to do with what you intend to do.

 

[neutec]

But if you plan to promote your server to a domain control, you will have to install DNS

 

[cVaSanJose]

Thank you guys for a valiable posts. I just want to doing internal resolution for my internal clients only. I dont have a register DNS name!!!

 

[cVaSanJose]

OK...I did as suggested by neutec "install DNS on your server but do not configure it yet. Then let DCPROMO do the rest" here is my configuration now:

Linksys100TX:

10.20.100.1
255.255.255.0
no Default
DNS: 127.0.0.1

Linksys Wireless:

192.168.1.100
255.255.255.0

My question are...

1. when I restart my server...it took a while to get connection to the internet.
2. Should I assign a default gateway address for my internal NIC
3. I want to change the DNS (127.0.0.1) to the IP address of my server (10.20.100.1) and make this server a DNS server for mu internal LAN? Is it possible and how can I do it.

Thanks

 

[neutec]

1)Yes, you will need a gateway. What is the ip address of the default gatewate to get to the internet? i.e. router or your firewall's ip address.

2) 127.0.0.1 is the same thing as your ip address of the server. 127.0.0.1 is your local loopback. I would leave that as is.

 

[cVaSanJose]

Thanks neutec...the ip address of the default gateway to get to the internet is 192.168.1.1 which is from the AP/Router from Linksys

 

[jbud]

I think neutec is giving you very good advice. I would like to ask a question about what you are doing. Your AD/DNS server seems to be multi-homed to different subnets off of the Linksys router/AP. Why? Only curious, I'm not being critical at all.

 

[cVaSanJose]

I'm just want to learn how multi-homed work. I want to setup the internal LAN using the W2K server with AD/DNS as a DC and local DNS to make it sure it work (resolve naming internally), then my next step would be to have all the computers from my internal LAN access the internet through the multi-homed server. I'm still new in this field so I want to experience and learn. Please help me if there is a better way to set up this kind of environment. Thanks a million!

 

[cVaSanJose]

guys...how come it take a long time for my wirless card to get the IP from the Linksys AP/Router?thanks

Linksys100TX:

10.20.100.1
255.255.255.0
192.168.1.1 ( from the AP/Router)
DNS: 127.0.0.1

Linksys Wireless:
192.168.1.100
255.255.255.0