DNS help

[cptkirkh]

After setting up DNS do i need to call my ISP and tell them I have a dns server now and have them add a record for it?

 

[brontosaurus]

Yes Captain. Call your ISP and/or your domain registrar.

 

[ShackDaddy]

Either that or tell them that you are going to host your own DNS and that you'd like them to set up their DNS server as a secondary to your own. They will set up a secondary zone and will configure it to pull zone information from your DNS server. If your DNS server goes off-line, your ISP's DNS server will fill in for people trying to find hosts in your domain. The nice thing is that you will be in full control of any changes to DNS and the ISP will have a copy of what you create. Just make sure that you know what you need on your end.

ShackDaddy

 

[GlenJohnson]

ShackDaddy's got it. I have my local pc's using my internal dns for name resolution, and on the servers I have the local servers and the isp's dns servers. What happens is that when the local pc's want to go to a website, it gets name resolution from the back room. If the sites not in cache, the server goes out and finds it on the isp dns servers, and now it's in cache locally, so the next time you go to the site, your connection time is much faster. Good luck. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
gjohn76351@msn.com

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it".
Epicurus (341-270 B.C.); Greek philosopher

 

[cptkirkh]

Ok so i call the ISP and tell them what they need to know. As far as Name registration goes what needs to be registered? Here is how we are set up here. Our ISP hosts our web site and we own the name of

http://www.mycompany.com

The DNS setup for my internal DNS is for mycompany.com. That is also the domain name for my domain. The internal DNS server has a name of NS.mycompany.com. Is that the name that needs to be reigstered with internic or whomever i register it with?

 

[NYR]

If your server is not or never will be connected to the internet, you can use whatever Domain name you want. Configure it for internal name resoultion and configure the forwarders to point to your ISP DNS servers.

 

[brontosaurus]

NYR makes a valuable point, and I should have asked you if your DNS server would be accessible from the internet, I just assumed from your question that it would be. If it will be public, then you'll probably want to "control" your DNS zone, which means that your server should be primary, and your ISP should be secondary, as Zel said above. Tell your ISP to contact the COM server admins, and add you're NS.mycompany.com server into the mycompany.com domain as a nameserver entry. Also, tell them you'd like for them to slave off of your server. However, If you're server isn't going to be publicly accessible, then do as NYR says.