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Hi Spicers,

I have now got a new network that is running server 2012. It consists of one physical box with free esxi and 3 VMs two 2012 and one 2012 R2.

I found out last night after a ram upgrade and the phone system (the R2 VM) not reinitialising properly and making calls that I have no reverse DNS zone setup (one of the non R2’s is the DC).

My questions are should we have one setup?

And can any one direct me to a comprehensive DNS best practices guide they have used sucsessfully and isn’t ful of crap? Hell a windows server setup best practices would be useful too as I have administered server but not really set them up before. I know a lot of the concepts and basic troubleshooting but have no sanity check if i plug through and check settings\ set things up correctly

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with AD the DC’s should be doing the DNS - forwards and reverse maps - with AD intergrated for the main DNS and reverse maps.

There’s then some debate about the forwarders, some prefer to use root zones (which mean you’re adding stress to them and also have to update them manually when then change - which isnt that often), some prefer to use google/opendns/isp DNS servers.

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I usually use ISP and Google, but check with your ISP first for their recommendation.