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Windows Server 2012: DNS zone setup

Windows Server 2012: DNS zone setup

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Windows Server 2012: DNS zone setup

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- [Voiceover] Alright, as we have already done on another platform, on the pfSense find side of things when I was showing you how to create different resource records, we created zones in that. And now we're over here on Windows 2012 and I need to show you how to create zones both for your forward and your reverse lookup zones okay. Because the automatic creation of PTR records will happen automatically when you're creating an a record and we'll show that next. But, it will not automatically create the reverse zone for you. We've got create that zone for ourselves. So we're going to start by just right clicking on the name of our server. And we're going to create a new zone right here. Drop down and create a new zone. It brings up a wizard here which we're going to click next through. We're creating a primary zone. If you are creating the second zone that would receive transfer data and sort of be that back-up DNS server for your network, then you would create secondary. But of course…

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