Be sure to save the MMC for use later on. You might also want to disable RRAS in

Working with Networking Services | 139 INSTALL DNS AND CREATE A ZONE GET READY. In this exercise, we will install DNS to a Windows Server 2008. 1. Open the previous MMC or create a new one.

2. Navigate to Server Manager Roles.

3. Click the Add Roles link.

4. Click Next.

5. Check the DNS Server option as shown in Figure 6-9 and click Next.

Figure 6-9 Adding the DNS service

6. Click Next for the introduction.

7. Click Install at the confirmation window. Installation will take a few moments.

A restart of the computer might be necessary depending on the configuration.

8. The installation should succeed. Click Close at the results screen.

9. DNS should now be added to the Roles list under Server Manager. However, let’s go

ahead and add it as a snap-in as well. Now we’ll add a zone. Zones are areas of the DNS namespace, such as Microsoft.com or dmz.Proseware.com.

10. Access the DNS snap-in and navigate to Forward Lookup Zones.

11. Right click Forward Lookup Zones and select New Zone.

12. Click Next for the welcome window.

13. Select the Primary Zone radio button and click Next.

14. Give the zone a name e.g., dnstest.com. Then click Next.

15. In the Zone File window, leave the default name e.g., dnstest.com.dns and click

Next. 16. Leave the default selection of Do not allow dynamic updates and click Next. 140 | Lesson 6 17. Review the summary and click Finish. You should now have a zone called dnstest.com inside the Forward Lookup Zones folder. This is where DNS records will be stored, such as hostnames and their corre- sponding IP addresses. Some zones allow for these records to be created automatically e.g., in a domain. Otherwise, records can be added manually. If client computers want to use this DNS server, their IP Properties pages need to be updated by adding the IP address of the server to the preferred or alternate DNS server field. Defining WINS Windows Internet Name Service WINS is a service that resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses. It is Microsoft’s version of the NetBIOS Name Service NBNS combined with a name server. A Windows computer name e.g., Computer1, can be considered a host name and interact with DNS, andor a NetBIOS name either working alone or in concert with a WINS server. Most companies opt to use DNS, but sometimes you will find WINS-enabled devices and WINS servers on less common and older devices. Whereas DNS can have hosts added statically or dynamically, WINS only works in a dynamic fashion. No configuration of a WINS server is necessary once it is installed, other than database replication. INSTALL WINS GET READY. In this exercise, we will install WINS to a Windows Server 2008. Note that this is done in the Add Features section and not the Add Roles section.

1. Open the previous MMC or create a new one.

2. Navigate to Server Manager Features.

3. Click the Add Features link.

4. Check the WINS Server option as shown in Figure 6-10 and click Next.

Figure 6-10 Adding the WINS server CERTIFICATION READY How would you define WINS? 3.4