Re: DNS settings problem
- From: "Mel K." <Mel.K@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:33:59 -0500
I'm not sure why the poster would need to create any records for "website
and e-mail which are both hosted by our ISP." I'm taking that to mean that
the both the Web site and e-mail host are externally accessible via the
Internet. If that's the case, then proper setup of the internal DNS server
should allow resolution of the external hosts. Even if DNS forwarding is not
configured, the internal DNS server should use the root hints by default.
As I mentioned before, the poster might be doing more than necessary.
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Mel K.
MCSA: M
"James Yeomans BSc, MCSE" <JamesYeomansBScMCSE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:14BD56BF-FB82-4002-92EA-0AB515AA5288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You are right to create the A record for your website, and i may have just
misinterpreted you slightly, but the A record you create for the website
(in
your dns) should point to the IP of the website, not to the IP of another
dns
server. Does that help?
James.
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James Yeomans, BSc, MCSE
Ask me directly at: http://www.justaskjames.co.uk
"K Miller" wrote:
I created www and mail host A records and pointed them to the ISP's DNS
server. If they don't point to the ISP's DNS server, what IP do I put in
there?
Our AD domain and website do have the same suffix. If I have to manually
create these records, how do I do that? I thought I was doing that by
creating the host A records.
Yeah, I need more help.
KM
"James Yeomans BSc, MCSE" <JamesYeomansBScMCSE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message
news:602FE762-99CB-4175-838D-1EA20913EA9F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi there, you said you created A records that pointed to the ISP's dns
server? If i have misunderstood then forgive me, but A records should
not
not
contain the ip of a dns server they should contain the IP you wish to
be
returned to the client when they query for that name (unless by
coincidence
they are the same).
Does your active directory domain have the same suffix as your website
for
example domain.com? If so then your clients requests for the website
will
never get past your dns server so you must manually create the record
for
the
website on your dns server.
Please let me know if you need any more help
James.
--
James Yeomans, BSc, MCSE
Ask me directly at: http://www.justaskjames.co.uk
"K Miller" wrote:
We have a small network running server 2003. All clients are XP Pro.
We
have a website and e-mail which are both hosted by our ISP. I added
host
A
files for both to point to the ISP's DNS server. I also added a
forwarder
to point to the same server. When I had the DNS TCP/IP settings on
the
clients set to point to the server, everything worked but we couldn't
access
our website or e-mail internally and the Internet was painfully slow.
I
then changed all the clients to "Obtain DNS server address
automatically"
and every thing works great except for the host A files are missing
from
the
server. I did an nslookup on the server and it came back as domain is
non-existant. I was able to ping the server. DHCP is handled by the
router. I had set the primary DNS server setting in the router to
point
to
the server, but have since changed back to the default of 0.0.0.0
since I
was getting the same website and e-mail problem. I also setup a
reverse
lookup, although, from what I've read, I'm not sure I really need
this.
I'm
new to this and learning alot the hard way. Is there anything obvious
that
someone can see that I'm doing wrong?
TIA,
KM
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