Hi, I am setting up DNS & DHCP both on same machine but I am confused what should I configure first DNS or DHCP.

It doesn't matter which one you configure first, but I always start with DNS and secondly DHCP. Why? Must books are written that way :-)

Is it a DC? Anyway, doesn’t matter. I would install DNS first. Make sure DNS zone configured to replicate with all servers. Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX Blogs - http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ Articles - http://www.sivarajan.com/publications.html Twitter: @santhosh_sivara - http://twitter.com/santhosh_sivara This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I would do DNS first. Fist off, it doesn't make sense to me to set up automatic IP assignments before you have the DNS structure set up. Plus, you should always set up Zones, ranges and exclusions and that is done after DNS is set up. -------- Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ On 12/29/2010 2:11 AM, abc_19 wrote: Hi, I am setting up DNS& DHCP both on same machine but I am confused what should I configure first DNS or DHCP. Regards, Hank Arnold (MVP - DS)