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Okay, I have a web server working, let's see if we can set up DNS
and give this puppy a suitable name. Akkana had IM'd me from work and
suggested kafkasoft, which seemed just about right.
DNS? What's that? It's very unclear when you try to set it up. The help screen helpfully suggests that you really don't need to do this, since someone else probably has a dns server running somewhere (we might presume on a unix server or something Rocket Sciencey like that) and all you need do is point your server at that. Is this a warning? There appear to be two choices. The first is to set up a dns server role, which seems to consist mostly of setting up forwarding to point to a real dns server. Well now, that's not much help. The other option is to ask Mr. Wizard to turn your ordinary box into a Domain Controller (Active Directory) which somehow has something to do with running DNS. But in the end it turns out all it does is ask an impossible number of questions about some crappy windows networking smb type thing, then it breaks your entire install so badly your web server doesn't even work any more (though it swears everything is fine). The solution? Reinstall and never, ever touch anything having to do with DNS again. Sadly, my linux server has to serve dns for this box. Now I know it's theoretically possible for a windows box to serve dns. I just can't for the life of me figure out how, and I have come to agree with the wisdom of the help screen that suggested, after all, I really didn't want to do this did I? |
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Copyright 2003 by David Mark North