[iyonix-support] Re: Success (was No Internet now)
- From: Grahame Parish <grahame.parish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:27:06 GMT
In message <eadf127e4f.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <1fbf0c7e4f.GrahameParish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Grahame Parish <grahame.parish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In message <Marcel-1.53-0310110652-1cbpErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> You can also manually set the the DNS in each computer with the DNS quoted
>>> by your ISP.
>>>
>> But don't make your ISP's DNS the main one if you also need to resolve
>> internal addresses. Set the internal network DNS as the first to
>> check, followed by the ISP's DNS as the secondary (and tertiary if
>> they give you two DNS addresses).
>
> Are you thinking of a local network with a real DNS server? i.e. not
> using the router as a DNS relay?
>
> In such a case the internal DNS server needs to have forwarders
> configured for the external DNS servers.
>
Yes, this is the best approach for this situation. When I first set up
my network I put the ISP DNS first and wondered why it took a long
time to boot up the machines when the Internet connection was down. :(
>
[snip]
>
> The local real DNS server situation is different. Here the client
> queries the local server always. If the local server doesn't know the
> answer it forwards the query, and caches the reply for future use.
> Such a real DNS server is likely to be running on Linux or Windows
> server edition.
>
As here (Windows Small Business Server 2003).
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Grahame Parish
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