Re: Single Server2003: DNS Settings to Allow Internet When Server Down

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"Karl Burrows" <karlspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there a way to setup the DNS so that if the server is down, that
clients
in the domain can still connect to the Internet, email, etc?

Not without another internal DNS server which holds your
zone supporting your AD.

All attempts to list multiple DNS server "sets" on the client
NICs will give unreliable results. Don't do that.

This is one of the reasons you really should have two DCs
although this specific problem is not due to DCs but merely
the DNS.

Running single Server 2003R2 on domain connected to local DSL for
Internet.

If you can afford a relatively obsolete computer to
run as DNS (and maybe DC) then put Windows
Standard Server on it (perhaps the biggest cost so
even Web edition could work if it will not be a DC)
and run DNS.

If you have hardware but cannot afford the license for
the OS then run Linux on it and make the DNS server
there a secondary for you zone.

Barring this, put BIND or another open source/free DNS
server on a workstation and set as a secondary.

You need two internal DNS servers.


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Thanks!




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