Questions about Domain Names, PDC, and DNS.

[LikeLinus]

I'm interested in the prospects of hosting my own domain name and email system. It's more so for learning experience than anything actually useful. I need an understanding of how a PDC works with a registered domain name and DNS servers. I know to use Exchange you must have a DNS server on a PDC w/ Active Directory Installed. But how exactly does the domain name work. Do you register with just any provider such as Network Solutions, Register.com or whatever, and give them your DNS Server name, right? So basically what you do is find a domain name that isn't registered, register it, then create a DNS/PDC server and change your records with the Domain name place you registered with.

So with that, I'd want to call my PDC something like pdc.likelinus.com or dns.likelinus.com. Then i just ask like register.com to change the DNS server info and ta-da, i'm all setup. Then I install exchange server, name it something like mail.likelinus.com and I'm all set? Any email sent to likelinus.com, exchange will intercept and send to the appropriate email boxes, or to an designated email account if one isn't specified (or send an error).

Do I have this right? I've never done it before but I'm curious how it all works and I wanna try it.

Once I have Active Directory installed, whats the usefulness of it? What excatly can I accomplish with it and use in some sort of business enviroment? How is it helpful. What's it do exactly.

 

[ndee]

LikeLinus? Then go with Linux dude

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: ndee
LikeLinus? Then go with Linux dude

Name has nothing to do with Linux, but I get that all the time It's a deftones demo song from along time ago.

But now I really do need some useful info and If My idea of how this works is right

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: ndee
LikeLinus? Then go with Linux dude

Name has nothing to do with Linux, but I get that all the time It's a deftones demo song from along time ago.

But now I really do need some useful info and If My idea of how this works is right

Well, if you have your totally own DNS Server, you need to register that DNS Server too somewhere, otherwise, your idea is prefectly correct I think you know what a MX entry is and stuff.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: ndee
LikeLinus? Then go with Linux dude

Name has nothing to do with Linux, but I get that all the time It's a deftones demo song from along time ago.

But now I really do need some useful info and If My idea of how this works is right

Well, if you have your totally own DNS Server, you need to register that DNS Server too somewhere, otherwise, your idea is prefectly correct I think you know what a MX entry is and stuff.

No i have no idea what an MX entry is. I also didn't know you had to register your DNS Server with someone else. Who would this be with? I'll google it for now, but It'd be nice if someone had some good instructions.

EDIT: ok, well you have to have a DNS server to be running Exchange server. What in the world is a "full" vs a "not full?" dns server? I've never heard such a thing (but im a noob )

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: ndee
LikeLinus? Then go with Linux dude

Name has nothing to do with Linux, but I get that all the time It's a deftones demo song from along time ago.

But now I really do need some useful info and If My idea of how this works is right

Well, if you have your totally own DNS Server, you need to register that DNS Server too somewhere, otherwise, your idea is prefectly correct I think you know what a MX entry is and stuff.

No i have no idea what an MX entry is. I also didn't know you had to register your DNS Server with someone else. Who would this be with? I'll google it for now, but It'd be nice if someone had some good instructions.

EDIT: ok, well you have to have a DNS server to be running Exchange server. What in the world is a "full" vs a "not full?" dns server? I've never heard such a thing (but im a noob )

You sure you already want to host your own Server? Well like a Full DNS Server is your own very DNS server. You need to register your public DNS Server with a organization, in Switzerland, it is switch.ch.

 

[LikeLinus]

You sure you already want to host your own Server? Well like a Full DNS Server is your own very DNS server. You need to register your public DNS Server with a organization, in Switzerland, it is switch.ch.

Um ok, that really didn't tell me much. I'm making the assumption a DNS server is, just that, a DNS server. I can create a DNS server easily.

I also never heard of the DNS public server registration? Does anyone else know about this? Or do you have any actual details.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

You sure you already want to host your own Server? Well like a Full DNS Server is your own very DNS server. You need to register your public DNS Server with a organization, in Switzerland, it is switch.ch.

Um ok, that really didn't tell me much. I'm making the assumption a DNS server is, just that, a DNS server. I can create a DNS server easily.

I also never heard of the DNS public server registration? Does anyone else know about this? Or do you have any actual details.

https://nic.switch.ch/reg/optionsbasic.cfm
# Register a nameserver: In order to use a nameserver for active domain names it must first be entered into the database.

at the very bottom. You need to manually register your DNS Server(ns1.likelinus.com has IP 127.0.0.1 or something ) at your registrar, so that the DNS Server is known to the public. How else would someone know where "ns1.likelinus.com" is?

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

You sure you already want to host your own Server? Well like a Full DNS Server is your own very DNS server. You need to register your public DNS Server with a organization, in Switzerland, it is switch.ch.

Um ok, that really didn't tell me much. I'm making the assumption a DNS server is, just that, a DNS server. I can create a DNS server easily.

I also never heard of the DNS public server registration? Does anyone else know about this? Or do you have any actual details.

https://nic.switch.ch/reg/optionsbasic.cfm
# Register a nameserver: In order to use a nameserver for active domain names it must first be entered into the database.

at the very bottom. You need to manually register your DNS Server(ns1.likelinus.com has IP 127.0.0.1 or something ) at your registrar, so that the DNS Server is known to the public. How else would someone know where "ns1.likelinus.com" is?

Thats what I was needing to know. See what I was wondering was this. If all i needed was an IP Address and a DNS server. Then I give the domain register people the DNS server info and your IP and it would forward to you.

What I'm gathering is that you need to registrar -> root svr -> your svr

so when someone resolve your name, root DNS server say goto your DNS server, and your DNS server says IP


After some research i found http://granitecanyon.com/ which can do your DNS public server info for you.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

You sure you already want to host your own Server? Well like a Full DNS Server is your own very DNS server. You need to register your public DNS Server with a organization, in Switzerland, it is switch.ch.

Um ok, that really didn't tell me much. I'm making the assumption a DNS server is, just that, a DNS server. I can create a DNS server easily.

I also never heard of the DNS public server registration? Does anyone else know about this? Or do you have any actual details.

https://nic.switch.ch/reg/optionsbasic.cfm
# Register a nameserver: In order to use a nameserver for active domain names it must first be entered into the database.

at the very bottom. You need to manually register your DNS Server(ns1.likelinus.com has IP 127.0.0.1 or something ) at your registrar, so that the DNS Server is known to the public. How else would someone know where "ns1.likelinus.com" is?

Thats what I was needing to know. See what I was wondering was this. If all i needed was an IP Address and a DNS server. Then I give the domain register people the DNS server info and your IP and it would forward to you.

What I'm gathering is that you need to registrar -> root svr -> your svr

so when someone resolve your name, root DNS server say goto your DNS server, and your DNS server says IP


After some research i found http://granitecanyon.com/ which can do your DNS public server info for you.

Exactly, you have to register it with the root server you're gettin' there, good luck