Winger300 0 Posted January 14, 2002 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? Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted January 14, 2002 Setup your internal DNS servers to use "forwarders", and have those forwarders set to your old outside (ISP) DNS server IPs. Share this post Link to post
Winger300 0 Posted January 15, 2002 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? Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted January 15, 2002 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 Share this post Link to post
Winger300 0 Posted January 15, 2002 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. Share this post Link to post
Winger300 0 Posted January 15, 2002 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? Share this post Link to post
Winger300 0 Posted January 15, 2002 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. Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted January 15, 2002 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. Share this post Link to post
Winger300 0 Posted January 15, 2002 I've no idea what im doing wrong with the dns setup though! Share this post Link to post
Winger300 0 Posted January 15, 2002 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 Share this post Link to post