New to DNS addresses
Too simple, but I'm taking a course on Server 2008 Active Directory. I am supposed to setup a DNS address for the new domain. I don't have a clue what addresses to use or why. My IP address for the server is 192.168.3.144 if that helps.
Don't laugh, my instructor already did that. Please help!
I've heard that the loop-back address of 127.0.0.1 could be used as an alternate, but not the primary.
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Well ..... I can't let the professionals do it! If you could read correctly you would have seen that this is a school assignment, not anything else. I do have OpenDNS installed on my home computer. Now I don't know why. Brother!
As to "maintenance", If I knew what an RFC 1918 address was I would already know enough to be able to answer my own question. I guess the old adage that says that those who do, "do", I really thought that this forum would be able to answer such a simple question. I guess it's beneath them, or maybe they don't know "simple" any longer.
Oh, by the way, professionals had to start somewhere. I wonder if they got any help along the way, or were they born professionals? I'd like to get to that point, but ..... I guess the professionals don't want us ..... Oh, well.
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"f you could read correctly you would have seen that this is a school assignment"
Well, you said "I'm taking a course on Server 2008 Active Directory", and this can be anything.
What about this? https://startpage.com/do/search?q=Windows+server+2008+AD+tutorial"I really thought that this forum would be able to answer such a simple question."
This forum is not a general tech purpose forum, but merely for support of OpenDNS related matters.
"I do have OpenDNS installed on my home computer. Now I don't know why."
You should always know why you do something. I don't know either why you use OpenDNS.
"If I knew what an RFC 1918 address was I would already know enough to be able to answer my own question."
What about this? https://startpage.com/do/search?q=RCF-1918
"I am supposed to setup a DNS address for the new domain. I don't have a clue what addresses to use or why. My IP address for the server is 192.168.3.144 if that helps."
What about this? https://startpage.com/do/search?q=Active+directory+domain+DNS+server+address
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I do have OpenDNS installed on my home computer. Now I don't know why.
As Rotblitz pointed out, if *you* don't know why you're using OpenDNS, you are asking the wrong people. If you are not the Administrator of your home network, ask someone who is. Or, and this is possible, it may be that you've inherited a dynamic IP address from another user who does use OpenDNS. Regardless, your tone is inappropriate to those who can only provide answers to the details you provide.
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I think davidrowley was angry that nobody wanted to discuss this off-topic subject matter of Windows server network configuration here in the OpenDNS forum, and as a consequence he questioned the use of OpenDNS in general. He may have thought the responders may be staff, but we are actually all users like him.
And I may have been a litte bit excessive with saying "let it the professionals do", because my impression was rather that someone (e.g. an employer) requested him to configure a server for production. And this is too dangerous with the skills level shown by him. But as it turned out later on that this is a pure school exercise, my view is different now. The matter is still off-topic here nevertheless.
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Hi David
I've never even come within 10 feet of taking an Active Directory or other network IT class. These are simple network concepts. There are two problems: First, you seem ungrounded in the basic requirements you need to take the course, which is why I think your instructor wouldn't even tell you as much as we did. (This is a failure of whatever course it was that was supposed to prepare you for the current one. If you simply claimed you already met the requirements for enrolling in the AD course, this can only be a problem of your own creation.) Second, I think you are overestimating what is expected when assigning an IP to the DNS server role (or any node) in the network. I think you are imagining it to be more complicated and specific to AD than it is, somehow.
Take a deep breath, relax, and find out how IPs are allocated in private networks. Perhaps consider your own home network, then expand on that to meet the environment of a larger AD domain.
See, this really isn't even a DNS question at all. It is a question about IP allocation - particularly the static IPs at the core of your network. And your answer is in your own question: "My IP address for the server is 192.168.3.144 if that helps." Let's see, the physical machine running at least the DNS role of AD already has an IP. So, what would any non-virtualized server running on this hardware have for an IP? If your home router has a LAN IP of 192.168.3.144, and it acts as the DHCP server, default gateway, and DNS server, what are the IP addresses for these individual functions of the router?
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