Now we almost finished setting up the networking on our Windows Server. We need to configure a DNS reverse-lookup zone. This will allow name resolution to happen in reverse. So you can find out a DNS name if you know the IP address. Go to the "Manage Your Server" wizard once again, and click on "Manage this DNS Server." From the DNS MMC, click on the "Reverse Lookup Zones" entry in the left side to highlight it. Then right-click on it and choose "New Zone." You will now be presented with the "New Zone Wizard." Click "Next" on the welcome screen. The next window lets us choose the "Zone Type." Here, we want to choose "Primary Zone" like in Figure 1-27. Click "Next" to continue.

Figure 1-27

Next we choose the zone replication options shown in Figure 1-28. Just accept the defaults here and click "Next" to continue.

Figure 1-28

Next, enter the network address that you are using for you network. If your server address is 192.168.1.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, then enter 192.168.1 here in the "Network ID" box shown in Figure 1-29. Here, I have entered 172.31.0 since my server address is 172.31.0.5. Click "Next" to continue.

Figure 1-29

The next window is shown in Figure 1-30. Here, we choose how the zone will be updated by other servers. Just accept the default and click "Next."

Figure 1-30

Click "Finish" on the next window shown in Figure 1-31 to complete the setup of our new zone.

Figure 1-31

The last part of our DNS setup involves configuring DNS to check WINS for name resolution. In case there is a name request that DNS can't answer, it will check WINS to see if it can. This is primarily useful for supporting older clients, but it is easy to set here so we'll do it just in case we need it later. Click on the "plus" sign to expand the "Forward Lookup Zones" and click on your zone name to highlight it. Right click on it and choose "Properties." On the window that pops up, click the WINS tab. You should see something similar to Figure 1-32. Check the box labeled "Use WINS Forward Lookup" and enter in your server's IP address in the "IP Address" entry area. Click "Add" to add it to the list. Click "Ok" here and that wraps up the necessary DNS configuration for our server. Close the DNS management console and the Manage Your Server wizard now.

Figure 1-32

The only thing left to do now is to update the server with security updates. From the "Windows Setup Post-Setup Security Updates" window, choose "Update this server" shown in Figure 1-33. The Windows Update website will launch after clicking. Just follow the normal procedure for updating a Windows machine.

That wraps up Part 2 of "Configuring Windows Server 2003 for a Small Business Network." We installed and configured Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and WINS. In Part 3, we'll look at creating user accounts and file shares.

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