Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Procedure for Conditional Forwording

1. Open the DNS mmc
2. Right click on the DNS server name and click properties
3. Click on the Forwarders tab
4. Click new button
5. Enter the DNS zone name, Example abc.com, or cde.corp
6. In the field "Selected Domain's forwarder IP Address list" enter the IP address of the DNS
7. The above DNS IP is the IP address of the DNS server that hosts the zone, abc.com..
8. Click add ... you can add more than one DNS servers IPs
9. Click apply and then OK

Monday, June 15, 2009

DNS - Conditional Forwarding

DNS conditional forwarding saves lot of time and makes configuration simple. You set the pointers for various zones and request is forwarded to appropriate Name Server.