bringing up a Third DNS Server

[lotario11]

Hi all,

I am quite new to adminstration. My boos has asked me to administer and i am trying to do so not without trouble...

I have two Windows 2000 Servers :
SRV1 running DNS NS1.mydomain.com , SQL Server2000 and MDaemon
SRV2 runnign IIS 5 and Secondary DNS server NS2.mydomain.com

I have been asked to bring up a third server to serve as more backup in case thing go wrong. I am , to begin with concentrating on DNS.

my questions is: If NS 1 is Primary and NS2 is secondary how should I configure DNS services on the new NS3. Shoul dns be primary or secondary??? What would be a samrt design??

thanks

Dan

 

[rwullems]

Think you should start reading a little more info about W2K DNS. There are no Primary and secundary DNS servers anymore in W2K.

Normally all DNS servers in a W2K enviroment are read/write. Only the first DNS server installed is called a PDC emulator, this is for backwards compatibility with existing NT4 DNS servers on your network.

So, if you install a new W2k DNS server (AD intergrated?) i will automaticly by a read/write DNS controller.
regards,
Robert

 

[lotario11]

Like I said , I am really new to this.

Ok so there are no more Primary Name Servers which get its Data from the local DNS database files??? And then Secondary which get data from the primary DNS server that is authoritative for a zone ????

Maybe I should have said Master instead of primary...

Anyway.. I am looking for more redundancy which I already have:
One Master(SRV1) Dns and another server which is receiving its zone file info from the master, SRV2 through zone transfer.

I want a third one up to provide more redundancy... How should I design this 3rd server. Should I have local Zone definitions or get the info through Zone transfer from one of the other servers declaring them master for this new one???

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thanks
D

 

[rwullems]

The simpelest way is to setup a new w2k server, then use the wizard to set up the new dns. You can point then to your first installed dns server (it shoul also be you domain controller?).
regards,
robert

 

[lotario11]

zorry I forgot,

We are not using Active Directory.

thanks

D

 

[lotario11]

Hi robert,

thank you for your patience..

These servers are for webhosting purposes and mail.... They are in a Workgroup, no domain, no AD services running. They ere hosted in the Bahamas.
They were up and running when I got this just a couple of months ago..
I am way in over my head here as you can see by now. But I want to do this. I have so far managed to keep services up.

We want a third DNS ,NS3 and we also want to Replicate SQL and run Web Services on this new server. The objective is to provide redundancy in case service fails in one of te currently running servers.
regards
D

 

[FestusMcShamus]

you need to cinfigure the ns1 zone and the ns2 zone on your third dns server. also add the third dns server's address and name to the nameservers tabs of the first and second zone's servers


festusmcshamus, mcse