Setup DNS on our File Server

[Cordabro]

Hi,
I am in a 30 user environment with one server running Win 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2000. This server is also the DHCP server. Right now the DNS server is pointing to our internet provider IP. I would like to make our Win2000 Server the DNS Server. How can I set this up and keep internet access from our provider? We also have a Sonicwall firewall and a DSL line. Everything works OK but login is very slow (2 minutes) which I assume is being caused by DNS search.
Thanks for any help

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

Setup the DNS to either use and Internet zone a domain that you have registered on use a .local zone. You must already have a domain setup since you are running exchange. Im suprised that you are not already running a local DNS server.

Once you have setup the DNS server with the correct zone, right click the the server and goto properties and you will see a tab with "forwarders" enter the IP's of your ISP's DNS servers.

Make sure that the DNS server is pointing to itself under TCP/IP properties. Configure the DHCP to lease the DNS IP for your local DNS server ONLY.

All clients should be pointing to the local DNS server only.

Slow client logins can be due to DNS, as said above the local clients should point to local DNS server only this should get rid of your slow logins.

Also make sure the zone it set to allow secure dynamic updates.

 

[Cordabro]

Thanks for the help - I did have DNS but it was not setup properly.
At this point I can get to the internet from a workstation through my DNS server but I can't get to my own website!
Every other site is fine. The website is hrm.org. My DHCP server is central.hrm.org. My DNS server name is hrm.org.
I set up the forwarders to point to our providers DNS.
Is there a problem because our website and domain name are the same? I am able to ping hrm.org and it resolves to the provider's IP.

Thanks

V

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

You need to add a host record into the DNS to point to your site. If you just use

http://hrm.org

to get to your site then goto the DNS console load the hrm.org zone right click and add A record pointing to the IP of the webserver and leave the top bit blank. If you use

http://www.hrm.org

then do the same as above apart from instead of leaving it blank put

http://WWW into

the top box.

 

[Cordabro]

Also when I run NSLookup, it says "Can't find Server name
non-existent domain" etc.
Although ipconfig gives my correct (local) DNS server