DNS Questions


AD-DNS Restructuring
Hi, I am tasked with Restructuring Active Directory within our company domain which is a crucial step to have a real and effective network setup. The plan is that all offices should have a DNS forest domain on a city basis. This schema should be something like this: Office Location Proposed domain name Current domain [...]

Answer Question   |  July 25, 2008  8:06 PM
Active Directory, DNS
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25 pts.

what is dns tell the steps to configure and creating reverse lookup zone
describe the domain name service and how we can configure it , how we can creat a reverse lookup zone,forword lookup zone and stub zone,how can we moniter dns & what are the dns qurey

Answer Question   |  April 9, 2010  1:20 PM
DNS, DNS management, DNS queries
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542
10 pts.

Changing provider Exchange 2003 and SBS 2003
I am changing provider today and here is my scenario and concerns. My DNS is hosted outside our network (A record-IP 164) then I have a firewall set at 164 and SBS 2003 which has IP 184. For some reason I am concern about my emails when changing IP addresses. I obviously will change the [...]

Answer Question   |  July 16, 2008  1:09 PM
DNS, Exchange 2003, Firewalls, IP addressing, SBS 2003
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Fe
65 pts.

reverse lookup zone
what is the use of reverse lookup zone

Answer Question   |  July 8, 2008  12:18 PM
DNS, Reverse Lookup
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5 pts.

How to configure DNS Server in Windows Server 2008
How to configure DNS Server in Windows Server 2008?

Answer Question   |  September 17, 2012  9:20 AM
DNS, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008
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5 pts.

can a 2003 dns server
can a 2003 dns server function a primary and a secondary name server

Answer Question   |  June 30, 2008  1:32 PM
DNS, DNS server, Windows Server 2003
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15 pts.

Creating DNS entries
Is it possible to create a DNS entry for a specific page on a website?

Answer Question   |  June 28, 2008  3:25 PM
DNS, DNS management
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5 pts.

DNS REVERSE LOOKUP ZONE
i want to know how i ve to configure the reverse lookup zone so that by ping and ip address command i can get the name of the particualr computer on the network

Answer Question   |  June 25, 2008  7:19 AM
DNS, Domain, IP addressing, Reverse Lookup
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10 pts.

LAN AND CONDITIONAL FORWARDING
I have a question in regards to LAN and subsequent access to the internet. If you wanted to protect your LAN from the internet would this scenario work as a sound measure. On the LAN delete root hints in DNS, provide a conditional forwarder to the router or ISP. I am a student and I [...]

Answer Question   |  June 24, 2008  2:30 PM
DNS, LAN, LAN administration
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110 pts.

Why are our domain users experiencing very slow logon response after moving to new ISP with Dynamic Hosting
Our Domain controller is set to be the authorative DNS server on our LAN. We just moved to a new ISP with dynamic hosting for our web site and pop e-mail. We changed our DNS server forwarders o the new ISP’s DNS addresses. Now it takes forever for a LAN user to log onto our [...]

Answer Question   |  June 3, 2008  4:16 PM
DNS, Dynamic Hosting, LAN
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5 pts.

web server and exchange server question
I have a server that currently hosts the pop3 email and website, as well as a small business server that we are using for some exchange stuff like calendar etc. I would like to get rid of the pop3 email and just use exchange instead, but I’m afraid I’m horrible with DNS stuff and will [...]

Answer Question   |  May 31, 2008  7:27 PM
DNS, Exchange migration, Exchange Server, Web servers
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35 pts.

Hosted server windows 2003, DNS / Active Directory problem
Hi, I have purchased 2 hosted server both with public IP address and currently the network card IP address is the assigned public address and the 2 dns address are that of the hosting company. What im trying to do on the servers are as follows; Server 1 will have AD as the main forest [...]

Answer Question   |  May 31, 2008  12:03 PM
Active Directory, DNS, Hosted services, IP addressing, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

How to access an intranet dns server over a VPN to provide name resolution of remote network
I am unable to resolve the names across a vpn tunnel connecting two private networks. I have a small private network (A) that is connected to a larger private network (B) over a vpn. To allow access to several database applications provided by network B. The vpn connection is made through a Netgear prosafe router [...]

Answer Question   |  May 23, 2008  2:48 PM
DNS, Intranet, VPN
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5 pts.

changing an internal domain name
I currently have just taken over the management of a school network. The external domain is hosted by a local ISP who hosts our web page and sends all the mail with ourname.school.nz through to a our mail server. The problem we have is the internal domain and the external domain has been given a [...]

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2008  10:42 AM
DNS, DNS config hosting, Domain configuration, Domain management
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5 pts.

How can I setup a DNS server to respond with an IP address when an A record doesn’t exist?
How can I setup Microsoft’s DNS server to respond with an IP address when an ‘A’ record does not exist? For example, let’s say someone goes to something.mydomain.com but there’s no ‘A’ record for the subdomain, something.mydomain.com. Is it possible to still have Microsoft’s DNS Server respond with a valid (default) IP for the domain? [...]

Answer Question   |  May 7, 2008  7:22 PM
DNS, DNS management, IP addressing
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0 pts.

A records, mx records sbs 2003 exchange
I was just wondering if these are correct. mail.its-aust.net. 1741 IN A 144.131.55.95 its-aust.net. 1741 IN MX 10 mail.its-aust.net. if 144.131.55.95 is my static ip and I point the relevant ports to the ip of the server will the mail get to the sbs exchange server

Answer Question   |  May 5, 2008  9:47 AM
DNS, Exchange, Exchange 2003, SBS, SBS 2003
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5 pts.

DNS setting for my exchange server on Windows Entourage for MAC
I am trying to set up the DNS setting for my exchange server on Windows Entourage for MAC. I cannot get this to migrate and am unsure whether it is the DNS I have got wrong or something else. Are there any problems that you have identified with this migration in the past?

Answer Question   |  April 17, 2008  3:31 PM
DNS, Exchange Server, Microsoft Entourage
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16,755 pts.

DNS NS and SOA records in Virtual Hosting Environment
Dear All, We have a dedicated server and I have to set-up a virtual hosting environment where multiple domains will be set-up (with apache, mail servers and the rest) for my clients. Because it is a shared-IP environment all zones will have records that will point to the shared IP. My question is the following: [...]

Answer Question   |  April 18, 2008  7:35 AM
DNS, NS record, SOA record, Virtual Hosting
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5 pts.

How would you set a forwarder to forward all emails received to 1 external address?
How would you set a forwarder to forward all emails received to 1 external address? Here is the situation: We have a client that is hosting their own email on their Exchange server with pop accounts outside of the HQ building. We will be hosting their mail on our servers under the same domain name. [...]

Answer Question   |  April 9, 2008  3:34 PM
DNS, Email, Exchange Server
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16,755 pts.

Not able to resolve some web site domain names
Hi, DNS is not resolving for some reason. We are not able to resolve some domains on the internet. It is very irregular. Mostly any site can be resolved. For example, sun.com will return ‘page cannot be displayed’, but go to a site never entered before, like cbsnews.com and the site pops up no problem. [...]

Answer Question   |  April 7, 2008  7:40 PM
DNS, DNS management
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60 pts.