I am helping a network admin friend of mine who is putting up a DNS server at his local branch office. The main office in another state has a DNS server that they have been using for a while. The idea is to help reduce traffic accross the wan by having a local DNS.
We configured the system as a forwarder and pointed the new DNS sever to the main one in the other state in the forwarding configuration (to handle those names not in the local DNS cache).
We then put up a performance monitor and watch the DNS received inquiries. We also manually configed one workstation to use the new local DNS server.
The then began testing by pinging and tracerting to all kinds of locations. The numbers in the performace monitor increated as we made DNS queries.
But we have some small issue that makes us wonder if its really working. The simple and recursive test fail and we dont know why
. So, now we are concerned that maybe the main DNS server in the other state (even though the local one is manually specified) might be doing the name resolution because of the forward setup.
We were hoping that maybe we could look at the cache of the local DNS server to see if the addresses we were resolving in test were casched - but we dont know were to go to look for the cache and view it.
We are kinda in limbo. It appears to be working, but we are not sure. What kind of things can we do to get a concrete confirmation that the machine is working properly??
ALso, on another note, everytime we start the DNS service we get an error 414 - DNS server machine currently doesnt has no DNS domain name. Its DNS name is a single label host name with no domain. Example: Host rather than host.microsoft.com.
We configured the system as a forwarder and pointed the new DNS sever to the main one in the other state in the forwarding configuration (to handle those names not in the local DNS cache).
We then put up a performance monitor and watch the DNS received inquiries. We also manually configed one workstation to use the new local DNS server.
The then began testing by pinging and tracerting to all kinds of locations. The numbers in the performace monitor increated as we made DNS queries.
But we have some small issue that makes us wonder if its really working. The simple and recursive test fail and we dont know why
. So, now we are concerned that maybe the main DNS server in the other state (even though the local one is manually specified) might be doing the name resolution because of the forward setup.We were hoping that maybe we could look at the cache of the local DNS server to see if the addresses we were resolving in test were casched - but we dont know were to go to look for the cache and view it.
We are kinda in limbo. It appears to be working, but we are not sure. What kind of things can we do to get a concrete confirmation that the machine is working properly??
ALso, on another note, everytime we start the DNS service we get an error 414 - DNS server machine currently doesnt has no DNS domain name. Its DNS name is a single label host name with no domain. Example: Host rather than host.microsoft.com.