building my own dns servers using windows enterprise 2003

I need help with windows server enterprise 2003

[claude]

Hello everyone

I decided to build my own web hosting server and I need to set up my dns servers "ns1 & ns2"

I am new to this and I can't seem to get it right.
I use the wizards to set up everything, but I can't get it to work.

Is there some literature out there that will specifically give you steps on setting up dns servers using windows 2003? the help files with the software isn't very descriptive and I think it is more about an internal network rather than the internet.

I hope someone out there can help

Thanks in advance...

[gpmgroup]

Name servers should be on a different IP address from the website. There are several companies which offer this service.

We use Zoneedit. They allow you to set up an account free for the first 5 servers. In this account you can set the name servers and the mail redirects etc to point to your web hosting server.

[edited by: tedster at 9:13 am (utc) on Sep. 10, 2004]
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[py9jmas]

DNS isn't simple.
First, get a copy of DNS & BIND from O'Reilly. I think Windows can cope with the same standard zone files that BIND uses.
Then read up on DNS related RFCs:
[dns.net...]
For instance, there is a whole RFC on choosing a suitable secondary DNS server:
[faqs.org...]

Many things may break if your DNS isn't right. Mail and ftp servers sometimes require the clients to have valid reverse DNS that matches their forward DNS, for example.

There are good reasons why many people pay someone who knows what they're doing to manage their DNS :-)