Don Powell said:
My W2K server is serving DNS to my internal office. How do
I set it up so that a particular domain name other than
the one that my server is named gets directed to a
different internal ip address?
You probably don't -- generally SERVERS handle the further
lookup (on behalf of clients) of names they do not hold -- this
is termed a "recursive query" because the most common way
to handled this is for the server to go to the root of the namespace
and work it's way down 'recursively' (using the same lookup
method at each level until it either succeeds or is provably negative.)
However, not all servers perform this actual recursion directly,
even if they accept so-called "recursive queries" (as most all
internal servers do.)
These servers accept the query but then FORWARD it to another
server (the forwarder) that then handles the recursive query (as above) --
and occasionally the forwarder forwards to a second forwarder....
(but watch out for time outs...)
Ok, so generally there are TWO MAIN ways for you to handle the
requests:
1) Have you internal server perform the actual recursion from the
root down by knowing and using the Root Hints
2) Forward to your ISP's DNS (or perhaps to your gateway/proxy/
firewall DNS server)
Simplest solution:
On the DNS server console Forwarding tab, add the ISP's DNS servers
that you would use if you had no internal DNS server.
