Re: Unknown host

From: Marc Reynolds [MSFT] (marcrey_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/27/04


Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 06:40:49 -0600

Have you update the DHCP scope to hand out the internal DNS server to the
clients? The clients will need to be configured to use the internal DNS
server containing the DNS records for the AD domain and not to use an ISP's
DNS server.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support
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"someone" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:149f701c413d3$fbad1cb0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> We upgraded our NT4 to w2k domain. After the upgrade the
> w2k pros cannot connect to the w2k adomain company.com.
> When I pinged the domain (company.com) I got this error
> message "Unknown host company.com. The client is a DHCP
> client. I was able to ping from a w2k server with static
> address. Can somebody please help me. Thanks.


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