DNS works both ways - your clients needs to resolve other hosts/domains out on the internet. This is where the DNS servers configured on your router (and on the Win2k8 server) come in. If your client is using the router as a DNS server, and the router doesn't know where a particular host can be found, it will forward the request onto one of the two DNS servers you see configured.
Setting up a zone on your existing DNS server is to allow remote clients to resolve hostnames in your DNS domain. As for how to do this: http://gopalthorve.com/install-and-configure-dns-server-in-windows-server-2008/ (and more links from: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Windows+add+zone+in+DNS+server) Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 24 February 2014 10:56 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Nameserver records You can install DNS server on your Windows 2008 server, and create a new zone (create it as a primary zone) for orthogonal.com.au<http://orthogonal.com.au>. Then create the necessary A, CNAME, MX etc. records under that zone. You will need to port forward UDP (and optionally TCP) 53 to your Win2008 server. This all sounds like it makes sense, and I notice that DNS seems to be running on my domain controller. It was all setup by a friend a couple of years ago. I thought it would be easy, but then I noticed my router has a pair of DNS entries, and I can't make sense of the Win8K DNS Manager window. So I'm confused by the screen and the relationship between the parts. Basically, I don't know what I'm doing and I don't want to break things. Greg
