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1. Log on to
ServerXX
as Administrator and open DNS Manager, if necessary.
2. First, you need to assign an IP address for an RLZ that doesn't exist yet. Open the Network
and Sharing Center and click
Manage network connections
. Right-click
Local Area
Connection
and click
Properties
.
3. Double-click
Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
. Click the
Advanced
button to open
the Advanced TCP/IP Settings dialog box. Click the
IP Settings
tab, if necessary, click the
192.168.100.XX
address in the IP addresses list box, and then click
Remove
. Next, you
assign an address that doesn't have an RLZ associated with it.
4. Click the
Add
button. In the IP address text box, type
192.168.200.XX
. The Subnet mask
text box is filled in automatically with 255.255.255.0. Click
Add
. Click
OK
three times.
Close the Network Connections and Network and Sharing Center windows.
5. Open DNS Manager and click to expand
ServerXX
, if necessary, and click
Reverse Lookup
Zones
.
6. Right-click
Reverse Lookup Zones
and click
New Zone
. In the New Zone Wizard's welcome
window, click
Next
.
7. In the Zone type window, select the settings to create a primary zone stored in Active
Directory, and then click
Next
. Select the option to replicate the zone to all DNS servers in
the domain, and then click
Next
.
8. You want to create an IPv4 reverse lookup zone, so click
Next
. Type
192.168.200
in the
Network ID text box. The Reverse lookup zone name text box is filled in automatically with
200.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Click
Next
.
9. In the Dynamic Update window, click
Do not allow dynamic updates
. Click
Next
, and then
click
Finish
.
10. In DNS Manager, click the
200.168.192.in-addr.arpa
zone folder in the left pane. You
should see an SOA and an NS record. There are no PTR records yet.
11. Under Forward Lookup Zones, click the
w2k8adXX-External.com
folder, and double-click
ServerXX-Ext
. In the IP address text box, type 192.168.200.XX. Make sure the
Update
associated pointer (PTR) record
check box is selected, and then click
OK
.
12. In the left pane of DNS Manager, click the
200.168.192.in-addr.arpa
folder. If the PTR
record isn't there, click
Action, Refresh
from the menu until you see it.
13. Open a command prompt window, type
nslookup 192.168.200.XX
, and press
Enter
. You should
see serverXX-ext.w2k8adXX-external.com returned. Close the command prompt window.
14. After this point, you won't be using the secondary IP address in this topic, so you should
remove the
192.168.200.XX
address from your IPv4 settings. You can also delete the RLZ
you just created by right-clicking the
200.168.192.in-addr.arpa
zone and clicking
Delete
.
Click
Yes
when prompted if you want to delete the zone. Click
Yes
when warned that it's
an Active Directory-integrated zone.
15. Leave DNS Manager open and stay logged on for the next activity.
9
Creating Zones from the Command Line
If you have a lot of zones to create, you
can wear out your clicking finger by using DNS Manager. For those who enjoy using the
command line, Dnscmd.exe has DNS creation and configuration options. To see the syntax for
Dnscmd.exe and get help information, type dnscmd /? at a command prompt. The basic syntax
is dnscmd
server
/
command
plus command parameters, if required. Following are some exam-
ples with server99 as the DNS server name:
• Create a new primary Active Directory-integrated zone named zone1 that allows only
secure dynamic updates:
dnscmd server99 /ZoneAdd zone1 /DsPrimary
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