[windows2000] Home DNS Server

Hi list,

Two questions:

1.  I asked this before like a year ago, but now I forget and do not
have any e-mails saved.  Damn me!  How can I use my own DNS server at
home?  I was doing it before until I had to rebuild my server due to
lots of hardware failure.  I installed Active Directory and DNS on my
server.  When using my server as my DNS server, I cannot resolve any
Internet addresses.  There was something I had to do to tell my server
to forward all requests that it cannot answer.  When looking at the DNS
properties on the Forwarders tab, that option is grayed out indicating
that the option is not available because the server is a root server.
There was something that I did before that I know at least involved an
asterisk I think!

2.  What's the point of the alternate DNS option that has always existed
on Windows clients?  Right now, if I do not use my home server as my DNS
server, I cannot be authenticated in the domain (probably because my
domain name is an actual Inernet domain and it's trying to authenticate
me out there.  Whoops.).  So, in order to map a drive to a share on my
server, I need to change my DNS to my server.  But then I cannot resolve
addresses (see above).  So, I figure, fine, DNS entry #1 is my server.
DNS server #2 is my ISP's DNS server.  Well, with that setting, when DNS
#1 cannot resolve and address, I just get that "cannot resolve..."  Why
doesn't Windows (XP in this situation) try the second DNS entry which
can resolve the name?

Thanks a lot,

Ray at home

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