DNS advice needed!

[JoseyWales]

Could someone please give me a few pointers? I am completely new to setting up DNS, and have been getting a little confused…

I am running an intranet in a small office environment (approx. 15 clients computers). The intranet is running off a W2K server (let’s say 192.168.0.20), and I have an OS X server which handles file sharing (192.168.0.30).

I have a number of different sites running on the W2K server, and at present I configure each DNS entry manually in NetInfo on each Mac client. This is getting more and more impractical.

Would setting up DNS on the OS X Server be my best bet? Or is there an intermediate option that would save time but not get too complicated (such as a centralised list of settings I could import to each client)?

Note that all the addresses I’d set up would be for internal use only.

[JoseyWales]

Thanks for the advice.

I’m not entirely sure about the Primary Domain Name and Primary Name Server Name. There is no name currently associated with my OS X Server.

We have a domain name (let’s call it mycompany.com). I have subdomains such as http://www.mycompany.com and mail.mycompany.com set up on a public DNS, and pointing to an externally hosted web server.

Would I use mycompany.com in the Primary Domain Name field? And what about the Primary Name Server Name?

Sorry if these are idiotic questions, but I really am new at this!

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