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I wish to create a domain name for use within the local LAN only. I have Windows Server 2003. Please guide me.

John Gardeniers
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Nyi Nyi Naing
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Please read the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

and then this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814591

If you read with intent to understand, this should pretty much take care of you.

SpacemanSpiff
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  • Yes, but i found Active Directory and i downloaded it. but i can't use this. plz help me... – Nyi Nyi Naing Mar 29 '11 at 05:39
  • The Technet article SpacemanSpiff linked to has all the detail you require. You do not need Active Directory in order to run the DNS service. – John Gardeniers Mar 29 '11 at 06:37
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    I'm sorry, Nyi Nyi Naing, but DNS is one of those systems that needs a bit of design and thought before you can use it. We can't tell you "just push this button, and type *whatever* in" because the system doesn't work that way. If you have a broad grasp of what it is you're trying to do we can help with some specific questions but its impossible to go much beyond that. – Rob Moir Mar 29 '11 at 07:03
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To create a DNS domain, you need to first install the Microsoft DNS service component of Windows Server. You can find this component under the control panel/add remove programs applet under the install Windows components section.

Once DNS is installed, under administrative tools you can find an MMC snap-in to manage it. Once you've opened the management tool, create a new Forward Lookup Zone. You can do this by right-clicking on the Forward Lookup Zone folder. When you name the forward lookup zone, you should take care to not use a domain name found on the Internet already. If you do, lookups to that domain will fail unless you mirror its records perfectly or perform a zone transfer (which will likely require some type of authentication). I usually name internal DNS zones at home using the .home or .internal top level schemas (mynet.internal is one example).

Once you have a zone created you need to populate it with records. A records, or host records are used to create name -> IP lookups for IPv4. If I created an A record called computer in the mynet.internal zone with the IP address 192.168.0.2 associated with it and I have a computer with my new DNS server registered as it's method for performing lookups then I will be able to resolve computer.mynet.internal to the aforementioned IP address.

Things you should look into after this is working:

Forwarding (to use your ISPs DNS server or something like OpenDNS for lookups not in your domain) Reverse Lookup Zones Host Record Types

I hope this helps.

Sean C.
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