<newbie> DNS zone name

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my home network consist of 2 computers (winXP and win2k3)

Now I'm about to configure DNS on the machine with Windows Server 2003. The
goal is to have this computer is the domain controller in my network...and
also configure Active Directory on my network

okay the problem is with deciding what zone name to use for primary zone. I
don't have any registered domains etc.. Lets say I use "microsoft.com" as
zone name, would that create trouble for my DNS server? problems like it is
confusing microsoft.com with the real microsoft.com... ???

(it may sounds like an overkill to have DNS, AD on my little network, but I
do this in the spirit of learning how to configure windows network... and
having 2 computers at home which I can play arround with are just fantastic,
although the win2k3 computer has only an Pentium 450MHz CPU....)

Best Regards!

Jeff
 
Re: <newbie> DNS zone name

Hi Jeff,

Basically unless you are going to host your own websites externally and
choose to host your own DNS for it (many companies use a DNS hosting service
company for this), then you are fine. You can name your domain whatever you
wish it to be, since its just internal, the outside world doesnt know or
care what your domain name is. If you do make it a name of a website you go
to though, you would just need to create a DNS record on your server which
points www.microsoft.com (for example) to its correct external address
(appears to currently be 207.46.192.254).

Thats great that you are setting this stuff up to learn from! Let us know if
you have any other questions. :-)

Coraleigh Miller


"Jeff" <it_consultant1@hotmail.com.NOSPAM> wrote in message
news:O9nJZYN6HHA.5212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hey
>
> my home network consist of 2 computers (winXP and win2k3)
>
> Now I'm about to configure DNS on the machine with Windows Server 2003.
> The goal is to have this computer is the domain controller in my
> network...and also configure Active Directory on my network
>
> okay the problem is with deciding what zone name to use for primary zone.
> I don't have any registered domains etc.. Lets say I use "microsoft.com"
> as zone name, would that create trouble for my DNS server? problems like
> it is confusing microsoft.com with the real microsoft.com... ???
>
> (it may sounds like an overkill to have DNS, AD on my little network, but
> I do this in the spirit of learning how to configure windows network...
> and having 2 computers at home which I can play arround with are just
> fantastic, although the win2k3 computer has only an Pentium 450MHz
> CPU....)
>
> Best Regards!
>
> Jeff
>
 
Re: <newbie> DNS zone name

Coraleigh Miller wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Basically unless you are going to host your own websites externally and
> choose to host your own DNS for it (many companies use a DNS hosting service
> company for this), then you are fine. You can name your domain whatever you
> wish it to be, since its just internal, the outside world doesnt know or
> care what your domain name is. If you do make it a name of a website you go
> to though, you would just need to create a DNS record on your server which
> points www.microsoft.com (for example) to its correct external address
> (appears to currently be 207.46.192.254).
>
> Thats great that you are setting this stuff up to learn from! Let us know if
> you have any other questions. :-)
>
> Coraleigh Miller

www.microsoft.com is 207.46.19.190 from where I am right now.

Jumping in here I agree with a lot of what Coraleigh said, and
self-learning is a great place to start and learn all the errors and
mistakes in a safe place :) I'm sure everyone wishes they'd just tried
that tiny little configuration change out on their home test network
before it crashed at work :)

You'll never keep up with putting external DNS in place for something
like Microsoft.com, there must be hundreds of sub-domains and you'll
spend your entire life keeping up with their DNS changes so you can
access their services (updates. downloads. that kind of thing). Same for
google.com etc. Yes you can, but it'll be a pain.

Why not use something you know for certain is never going to cause a DNS
issue (unless ICANN have a brain fart) and use jeff.local or something
like that.

On the other hand, try it and figure out for yourself why it isn't a
good idea to use microsoft.com


>
> "Jeff" <it_consultant1@hotmail.com.NOSPAM> wrote in message
> news:O9nJZYN6HHA.5212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hey
>>
>> my home network consist of 2 computers (winXP and win2k3)
>>
>> Now I'm about to configure DNS on the machine with Windows Server 2003.
>> The goal is to have this computer is the domain controller in my
>> network...and also configure Active Directory on my network
>>
>> okay the problem is with deciding what zone name to use for primary zone.
>> I don't have any registered domains etc.. Lets say I use "microsoft.com"
>> as zone name, would that create trouble for my DNS server? problems like
>> it is confusing microsoft.com with the real microsoft.com... ???
>>
>> (it may sounds like an overkill to have DNS, AD on my little network, but
>> I do this in the spirit of learning how to configure windows network...
>> and having 2 computers at home which I can play arround with are just
>> fantastic, although the win2k3 computer has only an Pentium 450MHz
>> CPU....)
>>
>> Best Regards!
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>
>
 
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