RE: Off Topic - DNS Server on Windows 2000
- From: Mahmoud Mohamed <al_islam_2020@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "\[ExchangeList\]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:00:59 -0800 (PST)
Hello
The reason the tab for forwarding is grayed out
is because your dns is configured as a root server.
All you need to do is configure it as a forward
server, then the tab would be avilable and you can
inter your isp dns in the forward tab.
Mahmoud
--- Alejandro Contreras <acontreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The internal DNS server should not have any pointers
> to outside DNS servers.
> It should have access to the outside world to do DNS
> lookups for the Root
> Hints and should be allowed to do recursive lookups.
> It should have its own
> IP address as the DNS server.
>
> The only reason you should use external DNS servers
> is for your website www
> A records and your mail.domain.com record.
>
> All internal systems should use the internal DNS
> servers (hard coded or
> through DHCP) as their DNS servers.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Alejandro Contreras
> Systems Administrator
> Ontario College of Teachers
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:02 PM
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> Subject: [exchangelist] Off Topic - DNS Server on
> Windows 2000
>
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>
> Hi All
>
> I have lost a staff member and have therefore been
> thrown in at the deep
> end.
>
> I am not great with DNS and I have the following
> problem.
>
> A windows 2000 server configured as a PDC running
> DNS.
>
> The clients are a mixture of NT4 and windows 2000
> professional.
>
> If I set the clients to use the DNS server to
> resolve the names then they
> are unable to connect to the Internet. "Error could
> not find server". If I
> configure the clients to use the ISP DNS server
> Internet works without a
> problem.
>
> I have looked at the DNS setup on the server and
> found a tab where you can
> enter forwarder details. This is greyed out so I can
> not add the ISP DNS
> servers in here.
>
> The end result is that clients can either browse the
> Internet or browse the
> lan but not both.
>
> Has this been setup wrong? How can I resolve this
> problem?
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions
>
> Frustrated Admin
>
>
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