Ken, thanks for your advice on this. I made my router redirect 53 udp and tcp to my domain controller. I bumbled around in the DNS Management screen and added new primary zones as you mentioned. Added A and CNAME records and it's finally working I think.
I had some weird problem where the www alias of one domain didn't work, lord knows why, but I eventually deleted the zone and recreated it and emptied the cache and all 3 of my domains are resolving. Adding new primary zones was the vital clue. So thanks for the clues on that. Now I feel like a real part of the Internet. Cheers, *Greg K* On 24 February 2014 10:13, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want orthogonal.com.au (or any host under that - e.g. > www.othogonal.com.au) to point to your IP address, then you need to > request your DNS hoster to create the necessary records (A, CNAME, MX) and > point that record to your IP address. > > > > If you want to be authoritative for the domain, then they delegate the > domain to you - and you need to tell them what name servers you want to > use. It seems that they've done this part - and set your IP address as the > name server for the domain. > > > > 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. 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. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Monday, 24 February 2014 9:49 AM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* [OT] Nameserver records > > > > Folks, On Friday I asked Intaserve to adjust their DNS records to point 3 > of my domains to my home server IP. What they seem to have done is made me > the DNS server. A whois to orthogonal.com.au for example shows my home IP > as the Name Server. > > > > Rather than get their support to change this, can just run with it and > become a Name Server? Is there some reasonably simple thing I do to my > Billion router and the Win2008 server to make my 3 domains resolve to my > home server? > > > > I don't normally dabble in this sort of thing, so I might be asking the > wrong questions. > > > > *Greg K* >
