I'm working for a small IT company and one of our processes involves lots of IP resolutions. As I understand it, it is very time consuming and we're looking into setting up some kind of DNS server that can be working (and storing) on these requests 24/7. Unfortunately I do not know too much about setting up a DNS server or if there is anything I should be aware of for this case... Do I need a dedicated machine or can this run as a background process on a comp? Do I need to be running Windows Server 2008? Any help here, or a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, TechShaman

I would never recommend you use a windows server for anything, ever. It doesn't HAVE to be dedicated machine, but it SHOULD be, as it may be under a heavy load a times. I would install BIND on a linux/BSD box: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....

Oh, I forgot to add, look for 'CACHING BIND' or 'caching nameserver' to setup the reply cache.