Just remember that if this is the only name server for your domain, it's now become a SPOF (single point of failure) for resolving records in your domain.
Given that there's free DNS hosters out there, I'd not do this personally myself anymore. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 24 February 2014 12:33 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Nameserver records 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If you want orthogonal.com.au<http://orthogonal.com.au> (or any host under that - e.g. www.othogonal.com.au<http://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<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. Cheers Ken From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[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<http://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
