Installing a Solaris 8 DNS server in Win2k network

[agentflicker]

Hello all,

We are attempting to setup a Solaris 8 (bind 8) DNS server for our W2k network and unfortunatly I haven't to many clues about how to do this and DNS. If any one has done something like this before, knows of any good docs, books, or has any tips or ideas on this I would very much appreciate it.

We have sort of setup the sunbox. For external addresses I have entered our ISP's DNS server as a forwarder. If we point workstations to this as their DNS server they will resolve external DNS names etc, and will resolve DNS names that we have entered into the db. file.

What I am interested in doing now though is somehow setting the W2k server as a forwarder to resolve internal dns names. (I assume) this will save me entering them all manually into the sun's db. files and then I can take advantage or W2k dynamically looking after internal addresses. Unfortunatly simply entering the ip address of the w2k server into the forwarders section of the named.conf does not seem to work.

If I enter another forwarder into the named.conf do I also need to enter this into the resolv.conf and what part does the resolv.conf play generally in the DNS server configuration (if any)?

Thanks for any info, Simon.

 

[agentflicker]

Hello again.

After some more experimenting, I have come to the conclusion that things aren't going to work the way I have them at the moment.

I believe that I have configured the Sunbox to be the primary (is this the same as root?) server for my domain. The w2k server believes it is the primary as well. So in this case the sunbox will not try to forward requests to the W2k server to resolve internal names that it does not know. What I really want to do is make the sunbox a secondary or caching server of some sort and get it to forward our internal domain inquiries to the w2k server and external inquiries to the ISP's DNS server. Is this possible?

Thanks Simon.