Re: Resolving DNS Names


"SBN via WinServerKB.com" <u32166@uwe> wrote in message
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Route to the internet would be a better way to say it. You don't
actually
connect TO the Internet, but rather ROUTE through it to connect to some
server or service on the Internet.

ah ok... Noted...

But in a LAN, like i in my case we have 2 Win03 DNS servers with AD and
all
our computers are configured to use these servers as there primary and
secondary DNS servers

As Preferred and Alternate -- technically Primary/Secondary have no
meaning for DNS CLIENTS doing resolution.

...but even without configuring these DNS servers on the
computers just the default gateway the computers can access the internet,

IN THEORY, but all access would be by IP address so that in practice
ordinary users couldn't make much practical use of it.

although our default gateway is a Linux box configured with our DSL
connection and is sharing internet access in our LAN. So does these
internal
DNS servers will take part in resolving website addresses if place in a
LAN?

They MUST "take part" but they can do it by either doing the recursion
physically themselves, i.e., from the root DNS on the Internet down, or
by forwarding to another DNS server (set) to do this actualy resolution.

Generally forwarding is a better choice.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
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