Adding a DNS Record - wAlber47/Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Find and invoke the DNS Manager from the Server Manager/DNS/AD01 menu.

Forward Lookup Zone:

1. Expand the Forward Lookup zones and find your new domain.
2. Entry should be under ad01.williamalber. This allows you to ping ad01 by hostname or domain name.
3. Right click on william.local and add a "New Host (A or AAAA)."
   1. Name: fw01-william
   2. IP Address: 10.0.5.2
   3. Check "Create associated pointer (PTR) record)."
4. You should get an error that the PTR record cannot be created. This is because the lookup zone cannot be found.
5. To fix this we need to create a reverse lookup zone.

Reverse Lookup Zone:

1. Right click on the reverse lookup zone in DNS manager.
2. Add a new zone.
   1. Network ID: 10.0.5.-
3. This next step can be tricky:
   1. To create a PTR record from the A record of fw01 and ad01 you must uncheck, apply, and update the PTR record check box and re-apply fw01's properties.
   2. In order to see changes you may have to changes, you may have to refresh. But you should end up with a 10.0.5.2 and 10.0.5.5. reverse lookup zone.