Domain Controller / DNS Issue – Creating Network of Virtual Machines for Development

First off I am a developer, and I a moving into the realm of distributed computing.

I need to create a development environment which consists of:

1. Many HPC Server 2008 nodes
2. Domain Controller.

… all as virtual machines.

I followed this guide to creating a domain controller: d3planet.com/rtfb/2009/11/09/build-a-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controller/

When I try to connect to the Domain like so via the Computer Name/Domain Change window (twitpic.com/qru6d/full) ,
I recieve the error: Error Message Window

The Error Reads:

"
Note: This information is intended for
a network administrator. If you are
not your network's administrator,
notify the administrator that you
received this information, which has
been recorded in the file
C:\Windows\debug\dcdiag.txt. The
following error occurred when DNS was
queried for the service location (SRV)
resource record used to locate an
Active Directory Domain Controller for
domain 17B.CO.UK: The error was: "DNS
name does not exist." (error code
0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR) The query
was for the SRV record for
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.17B.CO.UK Common causes of this error include the
following:
– The DNS SRV records required to locate a AD DC for the domain are not
registered in DNS. These records are
registered with a DNS server
automatically when a AD DC is added to
a domain. They are updated by the AD
DC at set intervals. This computer is
configured to use DNS servers with the
following IP addresses:
192.168.1.1
– One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child
zone: 17B.CO.UK CO.UK UK . (the root
zone) For information about correcting
this problem, click Help. "

The part which is interesting is:

This computer is
configured to use DNS servers with the
following IP addresses:
192.168.1.1

That is the IP of the router, not the virtual machine with the domain controller & DNS.

This seems to be a common issue to newb domain admins such as myself.

(Remember, this is a network of virtual machines which are all able to see/ping each other)

Any help would be greatly appreciated and I can support more info as required, thanks.

P.S. Excuse the insertion of direct links & lack of images, side effect of my account having no rep as yet. I will tidy up quesiton when I get the rep to do so.

Update:

Virtual Machine (VM) as a Domain Controller to create a domain which other virtual machines to join.

VMware Workstation with each VM using a Birdged Connection (connecting directly to network). Each machine can ping the other machines.

Answer:

I have blogged about the exact steps taken to solve this problem here: blog.holsee.com/2009/11/windows-hpc-server-2008-development-environment/