DNS Setup Help

Just wonder if someone can give me the recommendations on setting up dns. I'm somewhat familiar with it, however, i'm running into problems.
The problem I'm having is that clients computers are accessing my Server's through the Public address not the private one.
For example.
I have mac os x server setup with its own dns for mail under dns
10.53.35.35 mail.example.com (private address)
On my godaddy account I have dns set to point to the public address
68.116.15.23 mail.example.com (public address)
Each morning my client computers are connecting to my mail server via the public ip.
After I flush the dns on my client computers using dscacheutil -flushcache command in terminal,
the clients connect using the private address.
I have a sonic wall TZ170 as a router setup to handle DHCP. My client computers have the private mac server as it's dns settings (10.53.35.35). I can verify this via the system settings-->network or via ifconfig in terminal
Can anyone give me an Idea what might be happening?
Thanks
Message was edited by: Mango Buzz

I think I fixed. Had to remove the primary zone and re enter the info. I think everything is working now.

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Mac mini server networking and DNS setup help

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this. I'm working at a small business where I'm the only guy with any IT experience at all, but I'm new to Macs and OS X (<1 year) and being a server admin so please bear with me.
We just bought a Mac mini server as we are expanding from a bunch of workstations and Google Docs. I've just gone through the installation process, but nothing else is on the server, no user data at all, so if the answer is to reinstall from scratch, I can do it.
We'd like the mini to be a file server, print server as well as the gateway for the internet. I realize we could stick to our router and have the server as another node in the network, but we also got a Time Capsule for backing up the server and will locate it in another room to be another wireless access point there.
When going through Server Assistant, I didn't really know what to name the machine so I used corp-Server.local for the Current Hostname and corpserver.private for the DNS Hostname (though i actually use a 3-letter company acronym instead of "corp").
However, i realized after setup we'd want to access the server externally by name, so I changed the DNS hostname to server.companyname.com in the Zones tab of the DNS section of Server Admin (edited primary zone name, changed Nameservers entry for both primary and reverse zone).
I don't know what else I need to do though because there are loads of instances where corpserver.private still shows up, like in the Open Directory section of Server Admin (which btw always hangs when I open it) and the Contact Info of users (eg. user email is [email protected]). I also had trouble earlier using Server Preferences and Server Admin either not connecting or not recognizing my login, but that seems to have abated.
I guess my problem is, where else do I change the DNS hostname? Or do I have to change the DNS hostname back to corpserver.private (in Server Admin)? That way, I think at least everything will be consistent, but would I be able to still configure it somehow so that externally, we could access the server by the server.companyname.com URL?
Also, can the mini be a wireless router for the office? As mentioned before, we want to cut the existing wireless router out and use the mini instead (and use the Time Capsule as a wireless bridge).

So the ISP<->router connection can have a dynamic IP address, but the router<->server one should be static? I guess that means I have to set the IP address in the router. I hope I can get access to it. I don't suppose it matters which one I set first?
An IP router does not assign addresses.
A DHCP server does assign IP addresses upon receipt of a DHCP request from a client.
Some routers (and many firewall routers) do include a DHCP server.
A box with a static IP address does not need to send a DHCP request; it has a static address.
You'll need to ensure that the IP address pool within the DHCP server does not overlap the addresses that are manually assigned to your local hosts; the static IP addresses on your LAN.
[Here is an overview of the pieces involved here, and some of the typical terminology|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/275].
I hate to belabour the point, but I just want to clarify: in my setup where ISP<->router<->server<->clients, where the server is the only machine connected to the router, which one should be the local DNS server? The server, right? So if the DNS server is turned on in the router, I should turn it off? Or do I need both (ie. router for its LAN (to server), and server for its LAN (to clients))?
So to confirm, the configuration includes (probably) a modem, a router (firewall) and a router (Mac), and then the rest of the (local) show? That is not the simplest configuration, and it's Particularly given that Mac boxes make expensive and slow routers.
The usual configuration is ISP>firewall>LAN and the LAN is usually built from WiFi, wired connections and switches. Within one subnet (which is typical) any host inside your firewall is connected on the LAN, and can communicate (directly) with any other LAN client. The firewall is configured as the gateway; that's the default route for outbound connections.
One more thing that's bugging me: I still don't understand why I couldn't connect to the internet when I plugged in the Ethernet cable from server to router. Even if I was using DHCP to get a dynamically allocated IP, shouldn't it still have worked? I'm worried that I'm going to set up everything as it should be but the connection still won't work.
That's likely because you're trying to use the Mac as a router, and that takes specific configuration steps. It's easier to have ISP>firewall>LAN, and have the Mac OS X Server box and the rest of the stuff as peers on your LAN. If you really want to use the Mac as an IP router, look around for setting up static routes on Mac; there are postings around for that.
If your data is more valuable and your security preferences and requirements are higher, then you may want a firewall with a DMZ, and put your web-facing boxes over in the DMZ. If you're serving stuff to the web or a mail server or such, it's possible to get breached, and a breach means folks can potentially get further into your LAN. With a DMZ, they're somewhat more isolated from your LAN.

Help with Proper DNS Setup for Leopard Standard Server Setup

Hello All,
Problem Description-
I was reviewing some training today on DNS setup and checking for proper setup with the sudo changeip - checkhostname tool and I seem to have an incorrectly configured DNS setup. So I need some help on correcting it. When I go to the "Server Preferences" tool I cannot log in using apple.ourdomainname.com instead in order to use the tool I have to input localhost as the server name. Now I just thought that the system was broken or something and with the help of my training I now see it's a DNS problem. I thought I had everything proper since I followed the steps of creating proper DNS/RDNS entries with my ISP. Now I am stuck wondering what else isn't working properly due to the DNS issue. Thanks in advance.
Technical Info-
My ISP provides us with 5 static IP's and we have asked them to create entries and verified the setup of apple.ourdomainname.com = x.x.x.x which is one of our public IP's assigned currently assigned to the WAN port of our Apple Airport Extreme. We have also had them create a PTR record which also is present, verified and functional. Our MacMini running 10.5.5 is connected directly to one of the ethernet ports on our Apple Airport Extreme which is our NAT/Firewall for the LAN. So during the setup of the Standard Server install the OS configured the Airport with the required ports for chat/web/vpn. And mobile Mac's can VPN in and gain folder access and web works fine too. We don't use the e-mail portion so I can't say how that works. The server is using the DNS of 10.0.200.1 which is the IP of the Airport and the airport is programmed with the DNS of OpenDNS servers 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. The reason for this whole long shpeal is that I want to give as much technical background as possible for the best possible help.
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DNS Setup/View external website internally

Greetings all - trying to set up a Mac server from scratch for the first time. Been managing one for a while but didn't actually set it up myself.
I have the beginnings of DNS setup all squared away, but am still looking to figure out how to properly set up my website. Here's my setup. We used to have a joint Windows 2003/10.5 server environment. Windows handled Exchange and DNS, the Leopard box handled everything else (DHCP, web, file sharing, etc). We're transitioning everything to the Mac box in preparation for setting up Kerio MailServer and just to ditch the windows box.
I own companyname.net - that domain is hosted externally by Network Solutions. It's forwarded to my static IP.
Our old internal DNS was hosted by a Windows 2003 box - it had zones for companyname.ltd (the private internal domain) and companyname.net. companyname.ltd was the nameserver. There were two A records handling the website for internal clients - one with a blank name, and one with www. Both pointed to the IP of the Mac server (the current box that I'm transitioning everything to). Everything was hunky dory - internal pings to the web address went to the internal ip, externally it went to the external IP, and everything worked just great.
So in setting up the new DNS on the Leopard box, here's what I have so far.
Primary zone: companyname.net
A Record: macpro : 192.168.1.3 (this is the name of the server)
A Record: mail : 192.168.1.2 (our mail server)
Alias : ichat : macpro.winstongroup.net
The checkhostname thing works fine, Kerberos is up and running, as is Open Directory.
Now, I do not know how to set up our website so that internal clients can view the external website. I tried creating an A record to the server for www, but then that overrides the macpro A record that is the host of the whole thing. I also tried creating A records to the external IP, but then when I pinged it just pinged once, then it seemed like the firewall kicked in and stopped it. I tried creating aliases to companyname.net but every time I did that, Server Admin kept adding on an additional companyname.net to the end of the name (so it would read like companyname.netcompanyname.net). That didn't make much sense to me.
I'm sure there's other people who can view internally hosted sites from the lan - so any help would be very much appreciated!

One minor other question. I prefer the url of our site to be companyname.net instead of www.companyname.net. So now, while www is set up as a server alias, it wouldn't direct to companyname.net, even though that URL was set up in the web services panel in Server Admin. I then created a new alias that was "companyname.net", without the trailing period so it was not a FQDM, directed it at the same web server, and everything seemed to work. Does that seem right - it's working, so it seems to be somewhat right at least!

ICal Server setup help !!!

Hello All,
I would like to share my experience with setting up the iCal server and all the hick ups I had to get it finally working. At least what worked for me. Check the basics before you start.
This is all done from after installing the server in Advanced setup or so to say normal installation as it was under Tiger. I'm trying to summarize what I have done. It took me a lot of hours do. So if I mis something feel free to reply with the missing things. Maybe together we can setup a working manual for all others that have problems with the setup and lack documentation from Apple.
1) Make sure your DNS is setup properly and working. Test it with:
type: “named-checkconf” in de root account of the terminal. Nothing should happen thats OK
type: “named-checkzone” in de root account of the terminal make sure you use the complete path and bare in mind that Apple changed the DNS setup again pointing to something like var/named/zones/db.example.come.zone.apple. The serial of the DNS should load and you should receive a OK. Make sure that your server IP is also mentioned in the system preferences/network DNS so you can use for example the server.example.com in server admin.
2) Either use SSL or don't when you want to use, use it everywhere otherwise it something will slip trough and want work. Without SSL it appears to work easier in the setup from local iCal client to server. But SSL is of course more secure. I want talk about Kerberos because I'm not able to get that to work yet.
3) Make sure you set it up from an "Open directory", "Local directory" should/could work to but I haven't test that yet and I seriously doubt it would work properly.
That being said I now can share my setup with you (switch your firewall of during setup it's easier to troubleshoot, switch it on again if everything works. If it stops working after the firewall is on again, well you know where to look for the problem :-)):
1) After setting up the Open Directory Master I switched on SSL and created a own certificate for my server. I didn't protected the certificate with a password as it gives a lot of extra problems with setting things it up. You can than select the certificate under Server Admin/Open Directory click on setting and click the tab LDAP. There you can select it.
2) Make sure your webserver is running and you have a working website where you can go to. Under Server Admin make sure that under the selection Sites that your FQDN is filled out. Being something like www.example.com and not example.com. The second one could cause iCal web part to not work accordingly at least that is my experience. After that choose security and make sure SSL is on and your certificate is selected. The rest of the website settings is pretty basic I didn't changed to much. I do know that I switched on some extra modules. Being bonjour_module, authzsvnmodule, davsvnmodule. This prevented further in the installation the 210 error when I went to the Calendar under my webbrowser. I wouldn't know which of the 3 is doing the trick I only know that after this it worked for me.
3) Pffffff OK go to the iCal Server settings under the Server Admin. The settings are straight forward but again make sure SSL is on and your certificate is selected. And look at your host name which should be someting like server.example.com. If you are not able to get DNS setup properly you could try your machines example.local name. But that again could give troubles when you want to use local iCal client outside the door on a laptop for example.
These where all the server admin setting. Now go to the Workgroup Manager and selected the group/groups you want to have Calendaring switched on and choose the way people are able to logon. This you can do by going to the group select the default website and services you want to give. Then select under Allow the way people can logon to this website or iCal services.
When that's done you should have everything up and running on the server site. So now go to a local iCal client and go to preferences/accounts/server setting. Click the + on the left bottom site and fill out a name and password leave the server option for now to auto. This way and when everything is setup properly you should get something like https://server.example.com:8443/principals/_uids_/14A0DD22-86CA-4F55-96D9-9CB461640D52/. The end number should refer to your name and password account so the number want be the same as in this example. Well if it works you are one of the lucky people and you are able to setup a shared Calendar from there. It would help a lot if you have more than one machine to test. Because it didn't worked on my MacBook Pro getting a famous error "iCal unexpected secure name resolution" But it did worked on my wifes iMac. So the server settings are OK. Now the good part when it's not working is that you can go to your webbrowser and type or copy the following: https://www.example.com:8443/principals/users/shortname (naturally use your own server name and user name). There you can see details of the principals settings. Including youre uids number. This number is unique for your name and password. Copy this number. Then go back to iCal switch of the auto find in iCal client under preferences/accounts/server settings. The first part of the link is https://server.example.com:8443/principals/uids/(Now paste you number here). Hit enter and see what happens. It the name server is not working for you than use for example iso server the name mail if you have it setup in the DNS is should work. It did worked for me and it gave me a nice shared calendar which you can name for yourself. Every group member should be able to see this agenda once hooked up to it via iCal client and prefences/accounts/server settings.
If you go to your website or www.example.com/groups you should see youre shared group. Sorry I only tried it with one group sofar. If you make changes to the calendar from the webbrowser it will show up after a refresh in your iCal client and visa versa. The only thing I still have problems with is the events for more days. They show up on the web as events but when I click them they produce a unwanted error. But when it's based on a single day than it work perfectly.
Hopefully you have a working iCal server to now. If you find something interesting or you think I left some important things out. Please reply and fill out the blanks.
I just hope that it will save some time for the new once setting this up.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am looking at setting up an iCal server myself for our business. However, our situation is a bit different. Could you also share what kind of workgroup you set it up for? And maybe help me answer a few questions below. Thanks in advance!
First a little background. We are a small management company. We have individual clients that we manage. We need to have access to their calendars to schedule events, etc. The thing is that we would be the only ones looking at everyone else's calendars at once so that we can coordinate our own schedules so that we can be where it is most important but still not lose track of other activities.
1. What kind of machine are you running the iCal Server on? Xserve? MacPro?
2. Is it possible to view multiple users' calendars within a single calendar view?
3. Does setting up this kind of calendar server sound like the setup for our situation where only we, the management, will be able to view all calendars?
4. How difficult will this set up be on our clients and their machines since we have little control over their personal machines? (The majority of our clients are all Mac users. There may be one PC user.)

Basic DNS Setup

Heya Guys,
I'm new to server and in need of a little bit of help.
What I want to do is run a mail server (kerio) on my Mac Mini which is now running 10.5 server. I need to configure my server to run DNS but I'm not to sure on how to do it.
My setup is,
Static IP - Netgear Router - Mac Mini (DNS & Mail Server)
Is someone able to out line a basic DNS setup for me so I know what I'm doing? Maybe using my domain name as example.com
Cheers,
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Hello Tim
+" . . . why would you use kerio mail server when leopard server includes a Mail server? . . ."+
One reason is the built in Mail Service is not everyone's cup of tea. If you want to effectively use it you have to use to command line. Not everyone wants to do that. If you want out of office replies you have to bolt on something else. Same with an effective backup. If you want to use a unified address book and calendar you have to bring other applications into play. There is nothing wrong with any of that but if you want simplify ease of use and provide something that is an all-in-one solution then Kerio is pretty hard to beat.
One of Kerio's features is its ability to remotely wipw mobile devices (Blackberries etc) if they have been lost or stolen. I can't find that feature anywhere in the Mail Service. It literally takes only an hour (including download) to get it secured and running all from an extensive but user friendly interface that works. If a group member receives a reply the other members in the group get to know and therefore have no need to reply in turn. I could go on. OK it can start to get expensive as you add more users and also because of the virus subscription, but it can be made to use OSX Server's built in AV and Anti-Spam filters. Neither do you don't need to install it on a Server box. Any client OS will do. All of its features can be accessed using the built-in webmail client supported by all the main browsers. For PC users in a mixed platform environment it behaves in the same way an Exchange Server does.
It has its own built-in Archive and Backup Feature that does not involve stopping the Mail Service in any way. Its pretty good when you need to restore as well. From an administrative point of view it is as close to click and forget as you can get.
Don't get me wrong I like Apple's Mail Server - I like the challenge. But given the choice and budget I would go for Kerio every time.
Just an opinion.
Tony

Snow Leopard Server DNS setup

Where is there a step by step setup for making my Snow Leopard Server with DNS? Essentially, I am looking to setup a mail server but seem to be missing what information I need to gather from the folks that host my domain and how to point traffic to my network.

When I started setting up my first Mac OS X Servers a few years ago I had to completely retrain my brain because the MacOS does not follow the traditional nomenclature of Windows Active Directory and DNS setup. That being said like AD for Windows MacOS relies very very heavily on a healthy and properly running DNS system, both internally and externally. So one great resource I found was about 10+ hours of training on Leopard Server over to Lynda.com. I think you can sign up for a month long membership but it's well worth the investment if your looking for some basics thru advanced setup of Leopard Server. Now SLS is much much easier at the setup and deployment and some of the fundamentals of the setup interface have changed greatly (as an improvement) but the videos are still very applicable.
Basically it comes down to the following steps in order to get your website/e-mail/wiki services working.
1. Purchase your .whatever with a registrar, godaddy, doster, network solutions ect...
2. Make sure you have a fully routable PUBLIC IP address from your ISP that you can assign to the WAN (internet side of your router)
3. Contact your ISP and ask then to create an rDNS entry for your .something to the IP address they assigned you. Usually this will look like xxx.xxx.xxx ---> mail.mydomain.com when you test later on.
4. Modify the DNS records with your registrar to point the MX & A record to your new IP. You will log in create an A record for mail.mydomain.com ---> xxx.xxx.xxx (your public IP on router) and then you will create an MX record for e-mail which will simply be mail.mydomain.com with a value of 10 (there is usually a screen for this).
5. Once all the DNS is setup and working properly (Can take several days for these changes to take affect and be visible by your ISP) then you can begin the configuration of your router. You will need to determine what IP internally you want your Mac to be. Usually 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 or other and document that. Program your router to port forward ports 25,110, 80, 143 to the IP that you decided your Mac will be at so those services will be publicly available to you to user. Otherwise nobody will ever be able to send you e-mail or visit your site.
6. This is a good time to check your work and settings by visiting www.mxtoolbox.com and you verify your rDNS (setup by ISP) and your DNS (Setup by you) before beginning your setup of OS X SLS. If everything checks out then start the install if not STOP HERE and fix it because it will haunt you in the long run.
7. Start the install of SLS and at some point the system will get you to the screens at which you input your domain information. If all was setup properly up to now SLS will auto-populate the domain and local hostname of your Mac Server. U can change the local hostname if you wish but the domain name information should reflect your rDNS and A record information of mail.mydomain.com and you can hit next and proceed with the rest of the install.
8. Once up and running you will need to make a small adjustment to the alias of your e-mail. For some reason the engineers at Apple left a flaw in (my opinion) that is as such. Whenever you send e-mail it will go as [email protected] instead of what you really want which is [email protected]. So follow this post below and you will be all fixed up in a jiffy.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10110723#10110723
Hope this helps.

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Hi -
I am new to using CS5 and I am having a few different problems. I am not sure but I think they all stem from improper setup. I had used dreamweaver mx 2004 to set up a few sites back in 2004-5 so I am am somehwat familiar with setup, however, besides trying out CS5 on a new computer, I also now have a QNAP 459+ NAS which I am using as the remote server (as opposed to a site through go daddy or other).
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Where it says apache is started but up above it does not say that it is running. When I try to view PHP code in dreamweaver from the local site, it just shows the little PHP emblem and does not process the code. It does process php if I access the page from the server by typing the address in a browser. It does not process at all in dreamweaver.
I also get the following errors in dreamweaver which I am not sure but I think are related:
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I am not sure if I have multiple problems or just one which is causing all these symptoms, but any advice/help would be greatly appreciated!
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Multiple Leopard Servers - DNS Setup

Hi guys,
Just wandering what I need to do when setting up more than one server on the network with my DNS settings.
I already have a leopard server box, running advanced with DNS setup and working correctly. How do I setup the second server?
Do I create a machine record on the original server, as if the new server is just another network device, and not turn on dns on the new server?
Thanks,
Nige

"If you like you can add a NS record for the new machine/DNS name, set the new machine up as a secondary/slave DNS and allow for zone transfers in the first primary/master one. "
hmm, I think I follow.
"The second one should use the same forwarders as the first one (both machines should only use itself as the DNS in Network prefpane) and also the LAN reverse zone (*.in-addr.arpa.) should be zone transfered to the secondary DNS."
Are there instructions on setting up a secondary DNS?
"In DHCP setup also add the second machine/DNS IP so clients can use either/both."
I'm not running DHCP on the server, so I'm not sure what I can do here.
I guess I'll need to do a similar thing with directory as a well, so that both servers have the same users and groups.
Nige

Setup & Help buttons stopped working

I recently upgraded wireless network from WEP to WPA. Lost wireless connectivity to 3310 All-in-One, and now Setup & Help buttons don't work so I can't connect to new network. What happened? Is there a way to setup new network without accessing Setup menu on device?

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WRT610N incorrect DNS setup using DHCP with 1.00.03.15

I just noticed this last night and probably could explian my poor network performance since upgrading to firmware 1.00.03.15.
All of my computers using DHCP, both wired and wireless, Vista & Linux, show DNS1 as 192.168.1.1 or the routers IP address. I know that 1.00.03.15 fixed a DNS vulernability, but I can't believe this is by design. Looks like another bug to me.
I reverted back to 1.00.2.10 for now, problem goes away. Hopefully the performance will improve.
Anyone else experience this?

Spoke too soon. Firmware 1.00.02.10 also experiences incorrect DNS setup when using DHCP. I upgraded back to 1.00.03.15 and set the static DNS ip address on the main router setup page. Seems to be working. Hopefully Time Warner doesn't change there DNS ip address that often.

Cs4 in design page setup help cm, mm, inches change

hi all
i dont know if i am being totally stupid but whaen i go to start up an new document in indesign cs4 i can sem to change my page dimension option to cm, inches or mm it comes up like - 51p0 x 66p0 etc
can someone tell me how to change this so i can make my pages in mm, cm or inches?
thank you for your help
here is a a screen shot

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thank you
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:37:29 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: cs4 in design page setup help cm, mm, inches change
With no files open, edit your preferences and change units to inches.
That said, InDesign will convert units so if you type 11 in, even though the document uses picas, it will convert the inches to picas for you.
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Correct DNS Setup for Mailman Virtual Host?

DNS gurus, help please: I'm setting up a new Snow Leopard server that will rely upon an external name server. The single PTR record for this server will be the server's primary website, www.ourprimarydomain.topleveldomain . This primary domain name currently resolves to our current production server. I'm migrating Mailman before the primary website, and I'd like for Mailman to use a subdomain like mailinglists.ourprimarydomain.topleveldomain . This subdomain currently resolves to Mailman on our current production server. For testing before we switch to the new server, I'd like to set up a sub-subdomain development.mailinglists.ourprimarydomain.topleveldomain .
Clear as mud? Here's what I think that I need in our external DNS, is this the best way?
A: development.mailinglists.ourprimarydomain.topleveldomain -> new server IP
MX: development.mailinglists.ourprimarydomain.topleveldomain -> new server IP
PTR: none until we migrate primary website
Will this break anything? If we need a PTR record, perhaps we should register an external domain name that isn't our primary website.
What about C records? Should I register aliases?
Thanks for your advice,
Ted

OK, I've changed my plan. I think that this is the best for my scenario:
Register an external A, MX, and PTR for development.mailinglists.ourprimarydomain.topleveldomain -- I read that some email spam filtering systems use PTR (reverse lookup) as one factor in spam identification. So I want a PTR to begin with for testing. Once the mailing lists are migrated, I simply request that the current production domains point to the new IP.
So ... I think that's it

DNS Setup for Lion.

I'm a little confused with the DNS setup for Lion Server.
My scenario is this.
I have a router, IP 10.0.0.1.
Server running DNS is manually set to 10.0.0.253.
FQDN for the server is server1.mycompany.net (it is proper registered and live domain name I have used)
Externally I use Dyndns to point external folks to mycompany.net, and through the correct ports I can hit the router/gateway with the URL. This confirms that Dyndns is working.
I have forwarded POrt 80 on the router to 10.0.0.253.
Currently I have set DNS to have a zone of mycompany.net. Within the zone I have a machine record server1.mycompany.net set to 10.0.0.253
I think I have set the reverse lookup correctly, but the way it is shown in the DNS record looks strange (IP address looks backwards and says something about ARPA.
Web Server is running on the server.
Currently if I go to a web browser inside the LAN and use either www.server1.mycompany.net or www.mycompany.net (or the same without the www) I get an error message. The same occurs outside the lan on an internet connected machine.
If I enter 10.0.0.253 from inside the lan, I get the Mac WebServer default screen, showing the server is working fine.
I'm guessing I have made a mess of setting up DNS.
I'm looking at some point set up a small website, just to prove to myself I can get this working, but I can't work out what I have done wrong.
Can anyone suggest where to look?
TIA

Right now down to diagnostics
in terminal on server type
william:~ william$ dig www.wenatcheefirst.org
below is what i get copy what you get
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> www.wenatcheefirst.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29412
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.wenatcheefirst.org.                    IN          A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.wenatcheefirst.org.          3600          IN          CNAME          wenatcheefirst.org.
wenatcheefirst.org.          3600          IN          A          205.186.154.164
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
org.                              126088          IN          NS          a2.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.                              126088          IN          NS          d0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.                              126088          IN          NS          b0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.                              126088          IN          NS          a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.                              126088          IN          NS          c0.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.                              126088          IN          NS          b2.org.afilias-nst.org.
;; Query time: 430 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.88.250#53(192.168.88.250)
;; WHEN: Fri Apr 13 20:08:06 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 208

New server Network & DNS Setup

I just got a New Dual G5 Server and set it up using the pdfs from apple. Mainly the Getting Started Appendix B page 149 Small Business Setup using the Gateway Setup assistant. I ran into all sorts of problems like being unable to login to the open directory and i think it was my DNS setup that was the problem i then changed the setup multiple times using various How-tos in this thread to no avail.
So i have reinstalled the the Server software and will start again using the following steps.
This is my first post so i please let me know if i have provided enough info or to much?
SETUP:
ADSL 2 connected to DLINK 4 port Wireless Router (24Mbps) 1 port plugged into Ethernet 1 on Server. Router is setup as a DHCP using 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 for xserve. subnet mask is 255.255.0.0 (dynamic ip address from ISP)
Xserve Ethernet 2 will provide DHCP and NAT via a 16 port switch to Computers and Printers. Setup as 192.168.2.1, 255.255.255.0
I want to use the xserve as a file server, filemaker database server, web server for a test site for some of our content and also possibly an email server.
INSTALL
1. Install OSX 10.4 with ethernet settings above eth1 is DHCP eth2 is manual
assigned, no services will be set to start up and i choose Standalone
Server
2. Update with Software Update
3. Setup DHCP for the Clients - Start Service
4. Setup DNS use " company.private" for the host name and the DNS server ip
will be the 192.168.2.1 address
5. Upgrade to Open Directory Master and Kerberize
6. Setup Sharepoints for Data Storage and Home directory location
7. Start Apple File Services AFP
8. Create user Accounts / Groups
9. Setup Directory Access on clients to see LDAP server and DHCP.
Login from clients to get an automounted sharepoint and Home directory,
"sounds easy when i type it up like that".
Could anyone let me know if i am doing it the right way or if there is anything i have missed wrong order or something important.
Should i change the routers subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 ?
Obviously wireless clients will have access direct to internet due to the router and the routers DHCP. Can wireless users access their Home directory in this manner via the ethernet 1 port?
Should i just let the router handle the DHCP for everyone and plug it into the switch with only 1 ethernet being used on the server?
I will eventually have to have another subnet for student computers in the future.
I would greatly appreciate any advice

Pretty long post, and I doubt anybody here will want to go through the entire setup process. However, I'd re-think your baisc hardware configuration.
I don't know why everybody gets so excited about using that second ethernet port on the Xserve. It's necessary in some setups, but if you already have a router providing DHCP on a small network it seems like overkill.
I'd setup the chain in this order:
Internet - ADSL Modem - Router - Switch - Xserve / Computers / Printers
Setup your server with a manual IP address (192.168.0.2 is fine). Point it to itself as the DNS server.
Leave the router at 192.168.0.1, and configure the router to assign DHCP above the Xserve's address (say, from 192.168.0.10 and up). Also let the router handle NAT.
Network homes work over wireless, but it's not an entirely satisfactory experience. You might consider using portable homes instead; sync times will still be slow, but overall you'll cut down on network traffic and it should at least appear faster to your users.

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