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I have a DNS server running on a Windows Server machine that resolves some local domain names into local IP addresses.

I simply want to use the Windows DNS server. I do not want to use Dnsmasq. I don't want to maintain new domains through the router.

I did the following to attempt to achieve what I'm looking for:

  1. I set a static IP for the local DNS server's machine.

  2. I started the Windows DNS Server on that machine

  3. Set a Forward Lookup Zone of lan.[ourdomain].com

  4. Set two A records, one for wiki, one for pgadmin

  5. I set Google's public DNS to be the forwarders for the Windows DNS

  6. In dd-wrt, I set the DNS server's local ip to be the number one static DNS

  7. I also set "Local DNS" in the Network Setup pane to be the local ip of the DNS server

What else should I be setting? Like I said, I'm trying to just have the router point at my local DNS server to resolve names, and then I'll have the DNS server forward unresolvable requests. I don't want to use Dnsmasq because I don't want to be managing DNS records on my router. Is this possible?

Here's a screenshot of the settings:

Screenshot of my dd-wrt settings

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Have the windows DNS server do the forwarding. Point everything, including the router, solely at the windows dns server for DNS.

Systems dont always use their dns servers in a specific order, so having both your internal and some public resolvers in there causes problems. Only your windows dns server should talk to outside dns servers.

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  • Awesome, I'll give it a go and see what happens.
    – Nathan Lutterman
    Commented May 21, 2014 at 22:36
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    @zaemz Be sure to reconfigure any dhcp servers to give out the windows server for dns.
    – Grant
    Commented May 21, 2014 at 22:37

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