Re: DNS over the WAN link

From: malemi (malemi_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:06 -0800

Kevin, your answer comes very close. The network is running all Windows 2000
servers and workstations. So, WINS wouldn't help there. Each physical site
has its own subnet: 192.168.1.0, 192.168.2.0, 192.168.3.0 etc... There are
Cisco routers between the sites. There is a DNS and a DHCP for internal name
resolution at the 192.168.1.0 subnet. Other sites lack DNS and DHCP servers.
Other sites cannot do name resolution. But if you manuallt hard code their
IPs, then they can see the 192.168.1.0 network and be seen by 192.168.1.0
network. Any white papers on a situation like this? Thanks,

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

> In news:58490C13-C201-420B-BABE-4DDEDD0C0755@microsoft.com,
> malemi@yahoo.com <malemi@yahoo.com@discussions.microsoft.com> commented
> Then Kevin replied below:
> > I need to convince a customer that they need one DNS (and
> > DHCP) server at every site in order to resolve names to
> > IP and be able to see workstations throughout the WAN.
>
> See, as in Network Places?
> You will need WINS for that if you have multiple subnets, NetBIOS broadcasts
> cannot cross a router.
>
> As
> > it is, they can only see them if they hard code the IP as
> > opposed to using DHCP. They think it's a router issue. I
> > say it is a DNS issue. I want to configure one DNS and
> > one DHCP at every site. Any articles or white papers on
> > this will be appreciated. Feel free send your response to
> > my email: malemi@yahoo.com. Thanks
>
> If they are using Active Directory, DNS is required and all domain members
> must use it, not an ISP's DNS. If the router is handling DHCP it is probably
> assigning the ISP's DNS, if DDNS clients are not using the local AD DNS
> server they cannot register in DNS. Also, if the have Win9x clients they
> don't support DDNS and the router won't be able to register those clients in
> DNS like Win2k DHCP will.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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