DNS voodoo

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Hello,

Earlier I posted a message about our Windows 2000 DNS (AD integrated),
and our RRAS clients. Unfortunatly, we never got it to work to our
satisfaction, but now we've moved on!

Right now we are using a Cisco PIX with VPN capabilities, which works
like a charm - for the biggest part.

We created a user group on the PIX, defined our DNS and WINS servers,
and logged on. All seemed fine so far. An ipconfig / all shows all the
correct settings, and I can reach my servers by either their netbios
name or by their FQDN, and browse the network. All is good in paradise.

Until we found out that the original problem what we had with RRAS is
still here. My VPN clients don't register in DNS. They seem to be able
to query the DNS server for records of other computers, but they don't
update their record.
When I give a ipconfig /registerdns the registration seems to work -
but when I use a user account to ipconfig /registerdns they get an
access denied error (which I think is standard behaviour).

Is there something wrong in my DNS security settings? It's set to allow
dynamic updates from non-secure hosts. We are in quite a tight spot
about this, because we use an application on the LAN, which connect to
the clients by using FTP - and of course its either not finding a name
at all in DNS or the wrong name (from when the client is at the
office).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Jaap de Koning

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Relevant Pages

  • RE: VPN Clients Not Registering in AD DNS
    ... via VPN, the DNS records of the VPN clients are unable to be registered. ... Windows 2003 server? ... please let me know whether the clients get the IP ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: WINS and DNS issue
    ... Do they have their DNS name configured in the SYSTEM CONTROL ... It may be unnecessary to have the server on "both nets" directly. ... things you need to do (AD Domain, DNS clients servers etc.) ... ANd not if the clients register themselves. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.dns)
  • Re: Still strange not fully working DNS server
    ... On none of the computers (both DC and clients) no firewall software is ... For the rest nothing happens in the DNS forward lookup zone. ... Is the new server Global catalog? ... The config you mentioned was not configured so I have configured ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.dns)
  • Re: WINS and DNS issue
    ... > do have various DNS issues and our event viewer is full on DNS errors ... > and XP clients) ... This number of registrations is no big deal for a WINS server. ... Dynamic for the zone supporting AD ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.dns)
  • Re: Clients connecting to server
    ... DNS: 192.168.1.64 ... > I also do not know how to set up DHCP on the SBS and have the Clients ... > I get an internet connection on the server, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)