Question : I want to set up a DNS server on our network to handle ALL internet lookups

Hello. At some point in the past I had set up a windows 2000 server to be a DNS server for us. I had set it so that if it did not know the ip address of the site it went to another DNS server to get it and it updated its own information. I did this because we had several employees surfing to specific sites that they were not allowed to go to, and I was able to see the DNS records on the 2000 server and know what sites the employees were going to, and if I desired I could update the record on the server to point that URL to a different site hosted on our server.

We now have 2003 servers here and I was trying to set one up to DNS like the old 2000 server had, but the setup looks totally different to me, or I am just not remembering what I did originally since it has been many years.

Could someone please walk me through the DNS setup on 2003 to do this?

Thank you.

David

Answer : I want to set up a DNS server on our network to handle ALL internet lookups

Very strange. If that's able to provide an answer it should be able to when set as a forwarder. Normally the only way to prevent that would be if you had a Forward Lookup Zone for state.gov.

Chris