W2K Server ICS DNS trouble

Im using ICS to share my broadband connection, im using a USB DSL modem. Ive setup AD, DHCP and DNS, but clients cannot resolve external names, but can ping external IP addresses. Im guessing i need to setup another DNS server for external name resolution and one for internal network names.

Windows Networking 2246 This topic was started by Winger300, 2002-01-14 23:33

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Winger300

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#73987

2002-01-15 00:33

Im using ICS to share my broadband connection, im using a USB DSL modem.

Ive setup AD, DHCP and DNS, but clients cannot resolve external names, but can ping external IP addresses.

Im guessing i need to setup another DNS server for external name resolution and one for internal network names. How do i do this?

D3D is screwed up when using 2 cpus

Windows XP Pro or Home

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clutch

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#73988

2002-01-15 00:47

Setup your internal DNS servers to use "forwarders", and have those forwarders set to your old outside (ISP) DNS server IPs.

Winger300

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#73989

2002-01-15 01:14

It wont let me set that becuase i have it set as a root dns server. So i suppose the question to be asked is how do i change that?

clutch

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#73990

2002-01-15 01:19

This is in your online documentation that comes with Win2K server, but in case you haven't looked there yet:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/...ode.htm?id=1848

Winger300

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#73991

2002-01-15 01:49

I've read most of that and im still unsure of what to do. Im told "Forwarders are not available becuase this is a root server" but cannot find how i change the server.

Winger300

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#73992

2002-01-15 02:17

If i remove the DNS network component and re-install it, it reports that it cannot set the root hints in the registry.

When i first configure it, i can set the Forwarders, but then once ive closed the console and opened it again, its all ghosted. Any ideas what to do?

Winger300

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#73993

2002-01-15 02:47

What ive done now is set up DHCP to give clients my isp's DNS server ip. This allows the connecting computers Internet access, but i guess then i loose caching, recursion and internal DNS data.

I would still like to know how i enable my server to allow forwarders.

Thanks for the help so far though.

clutch

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#73994

2002-01-15 03:59

Doing that will degrade and eventually destroy your client's ability to resolve AD resources. I would suggest reading through the documentation on setting up DNS, and then starting over. It isn't hard, but you need to understand the concept before you jump into it again.

Winger300

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#73995

2002-01-15 04:27

I've no idea what im doing wrong with the dns setup though!

Winger300

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#73996

2002-01-15 15:13

I just removed AD and installed it again, im not sure what ive done differently this time, but it looks like its all working properly as it should. Thanks