DNS Configuration Using Win Server 2K8

DNS Configuration Using Win Server 2K8

DNS Configuration using Win Server 2K8

DNS Configuration

Go to Start menu à Administrative Tools à Server Manager


Adding Roles

Click on the Add Roles


Click Next…

Selecting Role

Select the DNS Server Role & click Next to proceed…

DNS Information

This window explains DNS & its importance.

Click Next…

Confirm Installation

Click Install to start DNS installation.

Installation Progress

Wait for the installation to be completed…

Click Close to finish installation.

Now go to Start menu, select Administrative Tools & click DNS

Configuring Forward Look up Zone

You will see the window as below:

First we will configure the Forward Lookup Zone (It translates domain names into IP addresses). Right click Forward Lookup Zone & click New Zone.

New Zone Wizard appears, click Next.

Select Primary Zone in this window:

Whenever you want to make a zone you will have to specify the type of zone as either Primary zone, Secondary zone or Stub zone. The first zone we create for our DNS will be the Primary zone, Secondary zone contains the duplicate copy of the created zone & is used for fault tolerance whereas the stub zone is helpful in making two way transitive trust relationship b/w different domains.

Here we are configuring our first zone so we will select the first option as Primary zone &

click Next to proceed…

Now we have to define the replication scope that how this DNS information will be replicated with other DNS servers i.e. either info will be copied to all DNS servers in the specified forest, domain or to all DC’s in the domain.

Type the zone name; it should be same as your domain name…

Check the first option i.e. Allow only secure dynamic updates

Click Next to proceed…

Click Finish to complete the installation.

Adding Host Record

Now you will be done with the configuration of Forward Lookup zone. Now add a record to this zone. For this right click the zone you have just created and select New Host (A or AAA).

Specify the following information asked:

Type the Name i.e. your system’s name & the IP address of your system then click Add Host & Done.

Configuring Reverse Lookup Zone

Now to configure Reverse Lookup zone (It is used to translate IP address in to domain name):

Right click Reverse Lookup zone & select New zone

New zone wizard appears, click Next…

Select Primary zone & click Next to continue your configurations…

Define the Replication scope

Define the version of IP addresses that you will be using while creating Reverse lookup

Zone, select IPv4 & click Next…

Type the Network portion of your server’s IP address in the Network ID box

Check the first option i.e. Allow only secure dynamic updates

Click Next to proceed…

Finishing Reverse Look up zone configuration, click Finish to complete…

Adding Pointer to the Zone

Now right click the recently created Reverse look up zone & select New Pointer (PTR) form appearing window…

Type the IP & the name for your system in the respective fields…

Now you are done with the DNS server configuration. You can check your DNS that whether you have configured it properly or not by opening the Command prompt and type nslookup if you get your configured domain name & IP address in response, it means your DNS is working properly.

We can also perform the same task using GUI i.e. we have to open Server manager à Right Click the domain which we have just created, click properties, click monitoring , check “A simple query” option, click Test now à OK; if query passed the DNS is configured properly…