DNS Installation and Configuration

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How To Install and Configure DNS

Server in Windows Server 2003

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Article ID : 814591

Last Review : October 30, 2006

Revision : 6.2

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SUMMARY

This step-by-step article describes how to install and configure DNS on your Windows

Server 2003 computer.

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Before You Start

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 areconfiguring 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, WWWservers, and others.

Before you configure your computer as a DNS, verify that the following conditions aretrue:
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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 asTCP/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 filepermissions

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a.In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), andthen click Properties.

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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.

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In Alternate DNS, type the IP address of another internal DNS server, or leave this box

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e.When you finish setting up the static addresses for your DNS, click OK, and then click

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a. On the Select Configuration Action page, select the Create a forward lookup zone checkbox, and then click Next.

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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 thezone, and then click Next.

c.On the Zone Name page, in Zone name, specify the name of the DNS zone for yournetwork, 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.

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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 yournetwork update automatically.

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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 ISPor central office. Type one or more IP addresses that either your ISP or central office DNS

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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 rolewas 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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REFERENCES

For additional information, click Start, open Windows Server 2003 Help, and then search

for "DNS Server."

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Professional for Itanium-based systems

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition

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