Can't ping DNS-server

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arno muhren

Hi everyone,

This is my first post and still a newbie, I've got a Win2003 Server
installed as an ftp-server, webserver (both IIS) and VPN (PPTP)-server. DHCP
is handled by my modem (speedtouch) and vpn-clients get their ip-adress
relayed from that modem (modem-router).
My problem is the following, from the clients (internal fysical network) I
cannot ping to the Windows 2003 server by it's name (SERVER), though the
clients are configured with that server (10.0.0.150) as their dns-server
(internet works, relay from modem-router). I have no reverse lookup zone
configured, forward lookup zone is called server.local.
When I add a host I can ping from the server to a client by name
succesfully. All clients are WinXP computers.
I hope someone can help me with this problem...when I ping SERVER, I get
time outs...I also would like to read a clear DNS-tutorial because the ones
I read were made for quite some knowledge already. It must be some small
thing I've overlooked.

Thanks,

Arno Muhren
 
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arno muhren said:
Hi everyone,

This is my first post and still a newbie, I've got a Win2003 Server
installed as an ftp-server, webserver (both IIS) and VPN
(PPTP)-server. DHCP is handled by my modem (speedtouch) and
vpn-clients get their ip-adress relayed from that modem
(modem-router).
My problem is the following, from the clients (internal fysical
network) I cannot ping to the Windows 2003 server by it's name
(SERVER), though the clients are configured with that server
(10.0.0.150) as their dns-server (internet works, relay from
modem-router). I have no reverse lookup zone configured, forward
lookup zone is called server.local.
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Is the Search suffix on the clients set to server.local? When you ping a
single label name, such as your example of 'SERVER', the system will suffix
the search suffix before the ping attempt. If the machine does not have a
Primary DNS Suffix, then I would assume that the search suffix will also be
missing. The Search Suffix will default to the Primary DNS SUffix.

If the host is missing out of DNS, then it will not find it after it
suffixes the name.

If trying to ping by NetBIOS name, and the machine is on another subnet,
then DNS has nothing to do with this, but rather WINS.

When I add a host I can ping from the server to a client by name
succesfully.
Click to expand...

Then we should add hosts for all your computers. :-)

All clients are WinXP computers.
I hope someone can help me with this problem...when I ping SERVER, I
get time outs...I also would like to read a clear DNS-tutorial
because the ones I read were made for quite some knowledge already.
It must be some small thing I've overlooked.

Thanks,

Arno Muhren
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You can try www.microsoft.com/dns for the most part for tutorials. There's
alot of info there.



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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
Are you using a WINS server for name resolution? Are you
having each client register their name with the dns
server? Do you have a FQDN(fully qualified domain name)?
If so add the suffix to the dns registration section. If
all of those fail you can add a static lmhost entry to
relove last resort.
 
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