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Right click on your server name in DNS and click properties. Set the IP's it will listen on. You can use all if you wish
or just specify 2.
Forwarders... I just leave default on a single server setup.
Advanced... Leave the same
Root Hints... Leave as default
I do enable monitoring. You should see pass/pass when you hit test.
Thats all. You can switch logging on if you wish.
Next you right click on forward lookup zone and click New Zone, Next, Primary Zone, Next, domain.com, next, next, next
finish.
Now the zone is created just go to c:\windows\system32\dns\domain.com.dns and open it in Notepad. You will see the
following or similar. The settings in here are automatically taken from your computer name and DNS Suffix (right click
my computer, properties, computer name).
;
; Database file domain.com.dns for domain.com zone.
; Zone version: 1
;
@ IN SOA server1.domain.com. hostmaster.domain.com. (
1 ; serial number
900 ; refresh
600 ; retry
86400 ; expire
3600 ) ; default TTL
;
; Zone NS records
;
@ NS ns1.domain.com.
@ NS ns2.domain.com.
;
; Zone records
;
You will then need to paste in the following records... all spaces, tabs and line breaks need to stay the same if I
remember correctly.
@ A 123.123.123.106
@ MX 21 mail.domain.com.
* A 123.123.123.106
ftp A 123.123.123.110
mail A 123.123.123.109
ns1 A 123.123.123.107
ns2 A 123.123.123.108
server1 A 123.123.123.106
www A 123.123.123.106
Just replace all those IP's with your IPs for the services. as well as your domain for the MX record.Save the text file
and go back to DNS, right click on the domain and click reload. All your records should appear.
The other way is to manually add all the records. I just find this way quicker with using notepad.
Now this is done you need to create ns1.yourdomain.com at your domain registrar as well as ns2.yourdomain.com as name
server host records. Once done you add the name server names and shortly after all should start working.
Let me know if you get stuck or at what point and I can remote desktop in and take a look, or offer advice here.