Hosting Own DNS

I have a client who wants their SBS 2000 Server to host it's own DNS.Meaning
not depending on a ISP to do this for them. I think it is a bad idea but
they would like this done. How would you go about doing this and any pros
and cons to this? Thanks

Roger Crawford
HTS

Cris
Tue Nov 18 23:33:05 CST 2003

Well this then means that they must set a second server because you must
have both a minimum of two authoritative DNS servers. Not sure why they
would wanna go to that expense.

Even if they don't want an ISP to do this specifically, Network Solutions
offers this service for a very small fee.

And if you are their IT consultant and its not something you are comfortable
in setting up, then you would have to bring others in to do this or lots of
technet research.

The DNS in SBS is meant to only handle internal DNS.

its already got enough to do without the stress of all those external
resolution requests

--
Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
-------------------------
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"Roger Crawford" <rcrawford@nospam.scci.com> wrote in message
news:umq%232wlrDHA.3140@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have a client who wants their SBS 2000 Server to host it's own
DNS.Meaning
> not depending on a ISP to do this for them. I think it is a bad idea but
> they would like this done. How would you go about doing this and any pros
> and cons to this? Thanks
>
> Roger Crawford
> HTS
>
>

Craig
Tue Nov 18 23:44:02 CST 2003

Hi Roger,

We do our DNS hosting, but do have our ISP do the secondary hosting as well
secondary MX hosting.
To set it up all I did was add a new Zone to our dns server and allow DNS
queries and Zone Transfers through ISA.

Pros - easy maintenance of your DNS records (not that they change that
often)
Cons- increased traffic on your internet connection, potential for security
risk if a vulnerability is in the MS DNS server. Others may have stronger
reasons than this.
I would not this do this without having secondary DNS servers either way
(RFC2182 recommends at least 3)

Oh and I setup the new Zone standard, not as AD integrated, mainly because
it kept adding the internal server name in as one the of the name servers
(anyone know why this is?).

Craig

"Roger Crawford" <rcrawford@nospam.scci.com> wrote in message
news:umq%232wlrDHA.3140@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have a client who wants their SBS 2000 Server to host it's own
DNS.Meaning
> not depending on a ISP to do this for them. I think it is a bad idea but
> they would like this done. How would you go about doing this and any pros
> and cons to this? Thanks
>
> Roger Crawford
> HTS
>
>

Roger
Tue Nov 18 23:47:55 CST 2003

Thanks Chris and as I had never set this up before is why I posted the
questions here. A start of the research to finding the solution or why they
really shouldn't do this and thanks for your reply.

Roger Crawford
HTS

"Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP)" <crishannanospam@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:uRTdI6lrDHA.2364@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Well this then means that they must set a second server because you must
> have both a minimum of two authoritative DNS servers. Not sure why they
> would wanna go to that expense.
>
> Even if they don't want an ISP to do this specifically, Network Solutions
> offers this service for a very small fee.
>
> And if you are their IT consultant and its not something you are
comfortable
> in setting up, then you would have to bring others in to do this or lots
of
> technet research.
>
> The DNS in SBS is meant to only handle internal DNS.
>
> its already got enough to do without the stress of all those external
> resolution requests
>
> --
> Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
> -------------------------
> Please do not directly to me but rather reply to the newsgroup so that all
> may benefit from the information.
> "Roger Crawford" <rcrawford@nospam.scci.com> wrote in message
> news:umq%232wlrDHA.3140@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I have a client who wants their SBS 2000 Server to host it's own
> DNS.Meaning
> > not depending on a ISP to do this for them. I think it is a bad idea but
> > they would like this done. How would you go about doing this and any
pros
> > and cons to this? Thanks
> >
> > Roger Crawford
> > HTS
> >
> >
>
>

Roger
Tue Nov 18 23:51:34 CST 2003

Thanks Craig


"Craig Iedema" <ciedema@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:%23YtLMBmrDHA.1876@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Roger,
>
> We do our DNS hosting, but do have our ISP do the secondary hosting as
well
> secondary MX hosting.
> To set it up all I did was add a new Zone to our dns server and allow DNS
> queries and Zone Transfers through ISA.
>
> Pros - easy maintenance of your DNS records (not that they change that
> often)
> Cons- increased traffic on your internet connection, potential for
security
> risk if a vulnerability is in the MS DNS server. Others may have stronger
> reasons than this.
> I would not this do this without having secondary DNS servers either way
> (RFC2182 recommends at least 3)
>
> Oh and I setup the new Zone standard, not as AD integrated, mainly because
> it kept adding the internal server name in as one the of the name servers
> (anyone know why this is?).
>
> Craig
>
> "Roger Crawford" <rcrawford@nospam.scci.com> wrote in message
> news:umq%232wlrDHA.3140@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I have a client who wants their SBS 2000 Server to host it's own
> DNS.Meaning
> > not depending on a ISP to do this for them. I think it is a bad idea but
> > they would like this done. How would you go about doing this and any
pros
> > and cons to this? Thanks
> >
> > Roger Crawford
> > HTS
> >
> >
>
>

Mark
Wed Nov 19 21:03:17 CST 2003

Roger, I do a LOT of web stuff and hosting your own DNS is absolute
insanity!!!! Now, my clients pop out to my mail/web server at a colo data
center and that machine maintains DNS so I can make INSTANT changes as most
any host can. For what I pay for this Linux server per year it would be
cheaper than 1 box and an OS license that would handle one of your DNS
servers. You are creating a HUGE single point of failure and if any of my
clients wanted to do it then I would either drop them or have them sign a
statement releasing me of anything! If companies NOT on SBS don't do this,
then why would/should a smaller company? Sorry, but I see NO benefit and if
you don't put your foot down, they will turn into a bad client.

--
Sincerely,
Mark Mancini, CCA, CCNA, Master CIW&CI, CNE 4&5, MCSE+I 4&2000
www.MCSE2000.com
www.AppLauncher.com



"Roger Crawford" <rcrawford@nospam.scci.com> wrote in message
news:umq%232wlrDHA.3140@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have a client who wants their SBS 2000 Server to host it's own
DNS.Meaning
> not depending on a ISP to do this for them. I think it is a bad idea but
> they would like this done. How would you go about doing this and any pros
> and cons to this? Thanks
>
> Roger Crawford
> HTS
>
>