Re: [ProgSoc] windows and DNS

[Matt <matt@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:49:56PM +1100, Patrick Kennedy wrote:
> hey hey

> anybody had the (dis)pleasure of setting up an internal DNS server
> for use with Windows workstations?  i need to setup a development
> lookup server that handles a small number of "fake" domain names.
> all other requests for name resolution should go to my usual,
> external lookup servers

> i've tried putting the internal one at the top of my lookup server
> list and turning off recursive lookups but no joy i don't even know
> if that matters. can someone put me on the right path?

> yes the DNS server is win2k, but this seems to be a client issue not
> server

bleh pat, you should know better than to use that win2k stuff. not
sure how to do it with win2k but i know how to do it with bind! you
need to set up what is called a split DNS, so you'll need to set the
machine as the primary and only DNS server for your clients, make sure
you are set up as a cache only set up, and preload the records you
want in the cache with a large ttl. you can do a more sophisticated
system if you know how to munge SOA records etc and export certain
domains to certain interfaces/addresses, but i doubt win2k's DNS
server could handle that.

	matt

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