Follow the how to below on configuring a Non Authoritative DNS server on Mac OS X 10.3 Panther server for a LAN using the 10.0.1.x IP address range.
Click to set up a Authoritative DNS server.
This only works if you have a static IP address.
With the DNS Server's IP address set to 10.0.1.2
Router IP 10.0.1.1
For this set up we will presume your domain is called 'example.com'
The DNS Server's name will be ns.example.com.
And the mail server will be mail.example.com. (10.0.1.3)
Other machines will be....
host4.example.com. will have an IP address of 10.0.1.4
host5.example.com. will have an IP address of 10.0.1.5
etc,etc
To name individual machines change host4/5/6 etc to whatever you want to call the Mac/PC with corresponding IP address.
Before you start make back up copies of :
named.conf you will find this file in /private/etc (duplicate named.conf and rename file named.conf.bak)
Also back up all files found in /private/var/named (make a folder called "bak" and copy all (3) original files into folder)
~ DNS Server : A & PTR Records ~
1. Open Server Admin
2. Under Computer and Services click DNS
3. Click Settings
4. Click Zones
5. Under Zones column click the +
6. Zone Name: example.com.
7. Type: Master
8. SOA: ns.example.com.
9. Admin email: admin.example.com.
10. Click: OK
11. Click: Save
12. Under Records in Zone example.com. click the +
13. Record type: Address (A)
14. Map from: localhost.example.com.
15. Map to: 127.0.0.1
16. Click: OK
17. Click the + again
18. Record type: Address (A)
19. Map from: router.example.com.
20. Map to: 10.0.1.1
21. Click: Create reverse mapping record button
22. Click: OK
23. Click the + again
24. Map from: ns.example.com.
25. Map to: 10.0.1.2
26. Click: Create reverse mapping record button
27. Click: OK
28. Click the + again
29. Record type: Address (A)
30. Map from: mail.example.com.
31. Map to: 10.0.1.3
32. Click: Create reverse mapping record button
33. Click: OK
34. Click the + again
35. Record type: Address (A)
36. Map from: host4.example.com.
37. Map to: 10.0.1.4
38. Click: Create reverse mapping record button
39. Click: OK
40. Click the + again
41. Record type: Address (A)
42. Map from: host5.example.com.
43. Map to: 10.0.1.5
44. Click: Create reverse mapping record button
45. Click: OK
Repeat above process to add as many as you need.
~ DNS Server : MX Records ~
46. Click the + again
47. Record type: Mail Exchanger (mx)
48. Map from: example.com.
49. Mail Exchanger: mail.example.com
50. Precedence Number: 5 (lower numbers get used 1st, so your back up mail server would have 10 so if the 1st mail server's down it will use your back up, ie the one with the higher number)
51. Click: OK
~ Very Important ~
Make sure to put the ( . ) period after your domain name
Check all your entries if your test output is wrong.
