Changing DNS name to host a website??

[Joe M]

At the moment my local domain is " mydomain.local" and my DNS forwards
any external DNS to my ISP. Now I am going to host a website. And my
registered domain name is " www.mydomain.com " . Can I create an alias
www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.net in my internal DNS server without
changing/clean install the network???? This alias will work alongside with
"mineman.local""".
How reliable is maintaining your own DNS server for your website vs DNS isp
to host it for you? Ideally having one's own DNS server would cut down
cost??
If having my own DNS server how do I get new DNS entries as my network user
surf the internet??

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

At the moment my local domain is " mydomain.local" and my DNS forwards
any external DNS to my ISP. Now I am going to host a website. And my
registered domain name is " www.mydomain.com " . Can I create an alias
www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.net in my internal DNS server without
changing/clean install the network????

Yes. Probably easier (and recommended) to just create the zones internally
and create a www record in each of them.

This alias will work alongside with
"mineman.local""".

No, they are different zones.

How reliable is maintaining your own DNS server for your website vs DNS isp
to host it for you? Ideally having one's own DNS server would cut down
cost??

Actually it's easier to just let your ISP do it. You have overhead with
running DNS internally. Need a separate server for the external names.
Registrars require 2 DNS servers. You shouldn't host external data on a
private DNS due to security reasons.

If having my own DNS server how do I get new DNS entries as my network user
surf the internet??

If using DNS for internal AD or not, just point only to your internal DNS
and then configure a forwarder to your ISP's DNS.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300202 will explain how.

--
Regards,
Ace

Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

 

[Jeff Cochran]

At the moment my local domain is " mydomain.local" and my DNS forwards
any external DNS to my ISP. Now I am going to host a website. And my
registered domain name is " www.mydomain.com " . Can I create an alias
www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.net in my internal DNS server without
changing/clean install the network????

Yes, but that's not what you want to do.

This alias will work alongside with
"mineman.local""".

That's a different zone. You need to configure new zones for each
additional domain you'll handle, and enter the appropriate records for
the hosts in that zone.

How reliable is maintaining your own DNS server for your website vs DNS isp
to host it for you?

How relaible are you and your systems? Reliability isn't dependent on
who hosts it, it's the competence of the DNS admin and the reliability
of the network. Chances are you don't have a redundant internet
connection for your secondary DNS to run on.

Ideally having one's own DNS server would cut down
cost??

Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on what you're paying now

If having my own DNS server how do I get new DNS entries as my network user
surf the internet??

You don't. Your DNS cache's requests according to what you configure
the caching time for, all on its own.

Jeff

 

[Dodo]

Having your own DNS server is obviously costing many precious administration
hours. When it comes to DNS forget about your ISP, they've got nothing to do
with it. It's between you and your registrar. The cheapest way to host DNS
records that I know of is godaddy.com. Godaddy provides domain registration
with free DNS hosting for 10 years for $69.50. Spend the money and setup
your resource records using their web interface and then leave it alone.
You'll never have to mess with it again unless your IP address changes.