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1. Click Start button, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. 2. Click Add/Remove
Windows Components button.
3. Highlight Networking Services, click Details button.
4. Place a checkmark on Domain Name System (DNS).
5. Click OK, click Next. Windows is now installing the DNS
service. (Make sure CD is in CD-ROM).
6. Click Finish to close the wizard.
7. Close Add/Remove Programs, close Control Panel.
8. Click Start button, Administrative Tools, click DNS (this is
the DNS management console).
9. Right-click your server name, and choose Configure a DNS
Server...
(this opens the Configure a DNS Server Wizard).
10. Click Next, select Create forward and reverse lookup zones,
click Next.
11. Select Yes, create a forward lookup zone now (recommended),
click Next.
12. Select Primary zone, click Next.
13. Enter in the zone name, in my example I am using test.home,
click Next.
14. Leave default zone file name, click Next.
15. Dynamic Updates are up to you, otherwise choose Do not allow
dynamic updates, click Next.
16. Reverse Lookup Zone, select Yes, click Next.
17. Zone Type, select Primary zone, click Next.
18. Enter Network ID number, in my example it is 192.168.1,
click Next.
19. Create a new file with this file name, leave as default,
click Next.
20. Dynamic Updates up to you, otherwise choose Do not allow
dynamic updates, click Next.
21. Select Yes, it should forward queries to DNS servers with
the following IP addresses. I used 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 in my example, click
Next.
22. Click Finish to complete the wizard.
23. Expand Forward Lookup Zones and click the domain name folder
beneath, this will show the host records.
24. If you are using static IP's to your computers, add those
records here. Right-click the domain name folder, select New Host.
25. Type in the name of the host and it's IP address, click Add
Host.
26. Click OK.
27. Then click Done when finished. You will see the new host record in
the main window on the right.
28. Configure your DNS server for your Windows Server 2003 machine
the DNS of itself, click Start button, Control Panel, Network Connections, Local
Area Connection.
29. Select Properties, highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and
click Properties button.
30. Change the Preferred DNS server to it's own IP address. Click
OK, Close, and Close.
31. Now go back to the DNS Management console, Start button,
Administrative Tools, DNS. Expand Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones, expand those
zones, and right-click on each zone and choose Properties. For security
purposes, go to the Zone Transfer tab and do not allow zone transfers. Make sure
you do this to both zones, everything else is fine at default.
32. Now your DNS service is fully up and running and secure. Be sure to change
the DNS server IP address on each PC in your LAN to point towards the IP of your
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