December 2004
Beginner
672 pages
20h 38m
English
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Building a Nameserver
In this section, I’ll guide you through the process of actually creating a nameserver, and then in the remainder of the chapter I’ll add to the functionality of the nameserver to prepare it for use with Active Directory.
Nameservers need a constant connection to the Internet and a static IP, either set statically on the server itself or delivered statically through a DHCP reservation. The machine you’re building out as a nameserver doesn’t need to be that powerful; a fast Pentium III machine with 512MB or so of RAM will be more than sufficient.
Tip
In the following examples, I will use the fictitious domain name hasselltech.net, with the also fictitious machine name colossus and IP address 192.168.0.5. You can, of course, replace these as appropriate when following along with your own computer.
The first step is to install the nameserver software onto your Windows Server 2003 computer. To do so, follow these steps:
Open Add/Remove Programs inside the Control Panel.
Click the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the left side of the window.
Select Network Services in the listbox, and then click the Details button.
Check the Domain Name System (DNS) checkbox, and click OK to return to the previous screen.
Click Next to proceed with the DNS software installation.
Click Finish, and then Close, to finish the procedure.
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If you have your computer set up to receive an IP address via DHCP, the nameserver installation will complain loudly that DNS isn’t intended to ...
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