DNS Problem?

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GeorgeP

Hey People,
How is everyone?
I have a small network set up. I am running Win2000 Server
setup as a PDC. I have a DSL modem and nodes hooked to a
Linksys 4 port broadband router. DHCP/DNS details to
follow. I have workstations with WindowsXP and Win98se.
The Win98 machines aquire dynamic info from DHCP, logon to
the network domain, can access the network shares, and
Internet; everything works great with them.
The XP machine, can access one thing at a time, either
Internet, OR Network; Not both at the same time. I had
DHCP runnning on the router. Then I disabled it on there
and set it up on on the server (which the 98 machines
worked great on)same thing.
Then I tried all static: In the network properties, on the
XP machine, DNS search order: if the server IP is on the
top (primary), it will access the domain, not the
internet; if the ISP address(s) is on top, it will access
the internet not the network. When it was running in
dynamic mode, if I change the dns order in DHCP on server
it will do the same as just mentioned above.
Am I missing something simple here?
Help,
GP
 
The problem you are having, is that your DNS servers are
not talking to each other. One will not forward a failed
request to the other. If you are running DNS on your 2K
server, configure the forward tab to point to your
Broadband router (This has NAT built in. A baisic DNS
server) setup your clients or DHCP to provide the DNS ip
address for your 2k server, then the Router. This should
clear up your problem.

HTH

D.J.
Northrop Grumman IT
A+, Net+, MCP, MCSA, MCSE
 
Let your server do the serving and set it up with DHCP and DNS.
XP is extremely sensitive about DNS.
On the servernic(s) DNS should only point to the server-IP. The
ISP-DNS-numbers should be set in the tab Forwarders of DNS-server.

Marina
 
Thank You for that very helpful response.
When I go to do that, under the Fowarders tab it
says, "Fowarders are not available because this is a root
server."
What now?
 
Windows XP and W2K must point to the domain controller as their dns server in order
to use Active Directory and NEVER point to an ISP dns server and the domain
controller must point to itself as it's dns server. In order to access the internet
you need to configure your W2K domain controller to forward to your ISP dns server or
use root hints to resolve internet names itself. See the links below for more
detailed information. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291382
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323380 --- Same for W2K.
 
Hi George,

In DNS-Server, click on the "Forward Lookup Zone" beneath the container
Forward Lookup Zones.
Delete any record which is not on the local internal subnet. If there is a
folder with a dot "." listed then delete it. (note- This indicates to the
server that it is the root server, which means do not go beyond this server
for name resolution.)
After that you should be able to enable the Forwarders.

Marina
 
That works,
Thank You!
Have a nice holiday.
-----Original Message-----
Hi George,

In DNS-Server, click on the "Forward Lookup Zone" beneath the container
Forward Lookup Zones.
Delete any record which is not on the local internal subnet. If there is a
folder with a dot "." listed then delete it. (note- This indicates to the
server that it is the root server, which means do not go beyond this server
for name resolution.)
After that you should be able to enable the Forwarders.

Marina

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