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Configure Your DNS

This document provides instructions for configuring a DNS server. It outlines the necessary information needed such as domain name and IP addresses. It also lists conditions that must be met like the operating system and disk space requirements. The steps to install and configure DNS are then outlined which include using the Windows Components Wizard and Configure Your Server Wizard to select, install, and configure the DNS role.

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Configure Your DNS

This document provides instructions for configuring a DNS server. It outlines the necessary information needed such as domain name and IP addresses. It also lists conditions that must be met like the operating system and disk space requirements. The steps to install and configure DNS are then outlined which include using the Windows Components Wizard and Configure Your Server Wizard to select, install, and configure the DNS role.

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Configure DNS

Before you start to configure your DNS, you must gather some basic information.
Internic must approve some of this information for use on the Internet, but if you are
configuring this server for internal use only, you can decide what names and IP addresses
to use.

You must have the following information:


 Your domain name (approved by Internic).
 The IP address and host name of each server that you want to provide name
resolution for.

Note: The servers may be your mail servers, public access servers, FTP servers, WWW
servers, and others.

Before you configure your computer as a DNS, verify that the following conditions are
true:
 Your operating system is configured correctly. In the Windows Server 2003
family, the DNS service depends on the correct configuration of the operating
system and its services, such as TCP/IP. If you have a new installation of a
Windows Server 2003 operating system, then you can use the default service
settings. You do not have to take additional action.
 You have allocated all the available disk space.
 All the existing disk volumes use the NTFS file system. FAT32 volumes are not
secure, and they do not support file and folder compression, disk quotas, file
encryption, or individual file permissions

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Install DNS
1. Open Windows Components Wizard. To do so, use the following steps:

a. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove
Programs.
b. Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
2. In Components, select the Networking Services check box, and then click
Details.
3. InSubcomponents of Networking Services, select the Domain Name System
(DNS) check box, click OK, and then click Next.
4. If you are prompted, in Copy files from, type the full path of the distribution
files, and then click OK.

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Configure DNS
1. Start the Configure Your Server Wizard. To do so, click Start, point to All
Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Configure Your Server
Wizard.
2. On the Server Role page, click DNS server, and then click Next.
3. On the Summary of Selections page, view and confirm the options that you have
selected. The following items should appear on this page:
o Install DNS
o Run the Configure a DNS Wizard to configure DNS

If the Summary of Selections page lists these two items, click Next. If the
Summary of Selections page does not list these two items, click Back to return
to the Server Role page, click DNS, and then click Next.

4. When the Configure Your Server Wizard installs the DNS service, it first
determines whether the IP address for this server is static or is configured
automatically. If your server is currently configured to obtain its IP address
automatically, the Configuring Components page of the Windows Components
Wizard prompts you to configure this server with a static IP address. To do so:

a. In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Internet


Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
b. In the Internet Protocols (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Use the
following IP address, and then type the static IP address, subnet mask,
and default gateway for this server.
c. In Preferred DNS, type the IP address of this server.
d. In Alternate DNS, type the IP address of another internal DNS server, or
leave this box blank.
e. When you finish setting up the static addresses for your DNS, click OK,
and then click Close.
2. After you click Close, the Configure a DNS Server Wizard starts. In the wizard,
follow these steps:

a. On the Select Configuration Action page, select the Create a forward lookup
zone check box, and then click Next.
b. To specify that this DNS hosts a DNS zone that contains DNS resource
records for your network resources, on the Primary Server Location
page, click This server maintains the zone, and then click Next.
c. On the Zone Name page, in Zone name, specify the name of the DNS
zone for your network, and then click Next. The name of the zone is the
same as the name of the DNS domain for your small organization or
branch office.
d. On the Dynamic Update page, click Allow both nonsecure and secure
dynamic updates, and then click Next. This makes sure that the DNS
resource records for the resources in your network update automatically.
e. On the Forwarders page, click Yes, it should forward queries to DNS
servers with the following IP addresses, and then click Next. When you
select this configuration, you forward all DNS queries for DNS names
outside your network to a DNS at either your ISP or central office. Type
one or more IP addresses that either your ISP or central office DNS servers
use.
f. On the Completing the Configure a DNS Wizard page of the Configure
a DNS Wizard, you can click Back to change any of the settings. To apply
your selections, click Finish.

After you finish the Configure a DNS Wizard, the Configure Your Server Wizard displays
the This Server is Now a DNS Server page. To review all the changes that you made to
your server in the Configure Your Server Wizard or to make sure that a new role was
installed successfully, click Configure Your Server log. The Configure Your Server
Wizard log is located at %systemroot%\Debug\Configure Your Server.log. To close the
Configure Your Server Wizard, click Finish.

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