Sorry I couldn't be more descriptive but I am very much a newbie to DNS. Here's the story (please forgive the length):
I'm the webmaster at this company where the previous webmaster handled ALL of the servers. He set up the DNS, he performed the maintenance, everything. The IT guy, I have trouble referring to him as an administrator, knows absolutely zero about the previous setup. I just got here and for some reason everyone here seems to think that my responsibility is handling server maintenance and problems (e.g. when they get errors where they can't connect to the mail server they come to me) so the problem falls on me. (Rant off)
The server setup was like this: We have 2 main servers, one is the web server and the other was dubbed the coldfusion server. The web server hosts all customer sites AND acts as the primary AND secondary name servers (ns1 and ns2) for our whole domain. The coldfusion server hosted the company's website, our sister companies' websites and the intranet site. It also acted as the tertiary name server (ns3) and housed the MS Access databases that pretty much all of the web information is held in. The coldfusion server had dns entries for the company's site, its sister sites and the intranet site and the web server had dns entries pointing to the coldfusion server for these sites and entries to itself for customer sites.
The problem is that the previous webmaster had Windows Server 2003 *E v a l u a t i o n* installed on the coldfusion server and about a week ago that eval ran out. We got a real version of 2k3 and installed it and everything...but the DNS information is gone and I have no idea how to get it back to the way it was before. I've tried to set up the DNS in just about every way it can be set up but it's just not working like it was.
Right now I moved all of the sites to the web server and adjusted the DNS accordingly and everything's running fine. However, the IT guy is telling me that I'm gonna have to set up the coldfusion server like it was to get everything back and the owner is telling me that setting up the servers is my responsibility and, like I said, I am a complete DNS newbie.
So, does anyone have any idea how this can be done or any books or tutorials or help sites I can read about this? I've tried googling some information but none of it was relating to this topic.
Thanks in advance.
I'm the webmaster at this company where the previous webmaster handled ALL of the servers. He set up the DNS, he performed the maintenance, everything. The IT guy, I have trouble referring to him as an administrator, knows absolutely zero about the previous setup. I just got here and for some reason everyone here seems to think that my responsibility is handling server maintenance and problems (e.g. when they get errors where they can't connect to the mail server they come to me) so the problem falls on me. (Rant off)
The server setup was like this: We have 2 main servers, one is the web server and the other was dubbed the coldfusion server. The web server hosts all customer sites AND acts as the primary AND secondary name servers (ns1 and ns2) for our whole domain. The coldfusion server hosted the company's website, our sister companies' websites and the intranet site. It also acted as the tertiary name server (ns3) and housed the MS Access databases that pretty much all of the web information is held in. The coldfusion server had dns entries for the company's site, its sister sites and the intranet site and the web server had dns entries pointing to the coldfusion server for these sites and entries to itself for customer sites.
The problem is that the previous webmaster had Windows Server 2003 *E v a l u a t i o n* installed on the coldfusion server and about a week ago that eval ran out. We got a real version of 2k3 and installed it and everything...but the DNS information is gone and I have no idea how to get it back to the way it was before. I've tried to set up the DNS in just about every way it can be set up but it's just not working like it was.
Right now I moved all of the sites to the web server and adjusted the DNS accordingly and everything's running fine. However, the IT guy is telling me that I'm gonna have to set up the coldfusion server like it was to get everything back and the owner is telling me that setting up the servers is my responsibility and, like I said, I am a complete DNS newbie.
So, does anyone have any idea how this can be done or any books or tutorials or help sites I can read about this? I've tried googling some information but none of it was relating to this topic.
Thanks in advance.