Creating A Primary Dns Zone Object; Creating A Secondary Dns Zone Object - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Creating a Primary DNS Zone Object

Creating a Secondary DNS Zone Object

After you create a DNS Server object, use the DNS/DHCP Management
Utility to create and set up a Primary DNS zone. For information about how
to create a secondary DNS Zone object refer to
Zone Object" on page
ADDR.ARPA Zone object, refer to
page 80.
To create a primary DNS Zone object, complete the following steps:
1
Click DNS Management > Zone Management to open the Zone
Management window in the main panel.
2
Select Create Zone from the drop-down menu > click OK to open the
Create DNS Zone window.
3
Choose Create New Zone.
4
Enter the eDirectory context for the zone or browse to select it.
5
Enter a name for the zone object.
6
Under Zone Type, choose Primary (default).
7
Select a DNS server from the Assign Authoritative DNS Server drop-
down menu.
or
Enter a unique host name in the Name Server Host Name box and
optionally, select a domain from the Domain drop-down menu.
8
Click Create.
A message indicates that the new primary zone has been created.
After you create a DNS Server object, you can use the DNS/DHCP
Management Utility to create and set up Secondary DNS Zone object. To
create a Secondary DNS Zone object, you must provide the IP address of the
DNS server that will perform zone in transfers for the secondary zone.
To create a secondary DNS Zone object, complete the following steps:
1
Click DNS Management > Zone Management to open the Zone
Management window in the main panel.
2
Select Create Zone from the drop-down menu > click OK to open the
Create DNS Zone window.
79. For information about how to create an IN-
"Creating an IN-ADDR.ARPA Object" on
"Creating a Secondary DNS
Setting Up
79