DNS SERVERS

[rutcgr18]

ok guys here it is i dont know if i will explain this right but iwill try. ok i have a network at my house and i am running a domain controler. windows 2000 server is he controler. now my server crashed and i had to reload. well before that happend i have a dns server running cause i used to have one of those free domain (ruotolo.d2g.com) and what happened is that wanted you to pay so i got rid of it. So evey time i would log on to my server it would take for ever cause it was trying to vlalidate me with the domain. so anyways my buddy told me to set up a dummy dns server on my server. so the computer would validate with the server not out on the web. so that worked. well now that i have reloaded the server i decied to change the domain to the one i have recently purchaced (mruotolo.com) now when my mahines connect it takes a bit to log on so i am thinking of setting up a dummy dns server again. i have tried and it does not work not sure what i am doing wrong or what. well any help would be apreciated
thanks
mike

 

[azev]

first of all, did you do dcpromo on the server to promote it to a domain controller ?
Did you isntall dns server on the server ?? it is a requirement of a win2k domain to have a dns server.
Make sure your client use the dns server for the domain. Hope this help

 

[rutcgr18]

yea i have done all of that

 

[TW2002]

Maybe a little more detail on your config..

if you add the appropriate records to the dns you should be ok. Are authoritive for the domain? Using forwarding?