Re: New kid, please help

Yeah, the problem is that BT refuse to give me the DNS settings as it isn't a
business broadband package and they don't 'support' servers. Which frankly
is rubbish but they wont give an inch. The router is set to automatically
find DNS but SBS asks for specific IP addresses with no auto option as far as
I can see.

Thanks for your help.

"fedup" wrote:

????
What do you mean?
DNS should be used on your server to resolve internal names and external
names. the external names are not held in a local database, they will be
forwarded to another server and another and another until the name gets
resolved.
If your router is getting DHCP settings from your ISP then the DNS for your
ISP (this will be your closest DNS server external to your network) will be
obtained automatically. Thus your router is automatically forwarding
requests for you. what I was saying is that if you cannot find the correct
settings, you could in theory add a DNS forwarder on your SBS to your
router. However I just recommend finding out your ISPs DNS settings and
done.

Turn off DHCP on your router enable DHCP on your server configure the
correct options and your internal clients will be happy.

DHCP on a real server is much more reliable and more configurable, it can
set not just IP addresses but addresses for other services as well.

i.e what DNS servers a client would use, what WINS servers etc etc etc.

"Sparky" <Sparky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Would pointing the router at the server at the server back at the router
not
just give a constant loop on DNS?

In that case I turn off DHCP on the router and on on the server, am I
right
in thinking that DHCP assigns IP addresses? This is slightly difficult as
I
am some distance from the server so can't try out anything you have said
until I get there again so forgive obvious questions.

Thanks for the suggestions

"fedup" wrote:

Hey new kid,

login to the router and look under something like connection status you
should see the DNS settings there.

you should be using DHCP on the server and all clients should be using
that,
and the DHCP option for DNS pointing to the internal DNS server with
forwarders set on your servers DNS to resolve external names. This will
fix
your connect computer issues.

If you can't find your ISPs DNS settings, then your router will be doing
forwarding for you so you could just add your routers IP as the
forwarding
DNS server on your SBS (note this will be slow at resolving and you may
get
many timeouts whilst browsing)

you ought to upgrade the service to get a fixed IP if you can.

"Sparky" <Sparky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Forgot to say - would connecting the server via the standard modem to
ADSL
solve my problem with DNS or would I still need the IP addresses? The
modem
is USB, is this acceptable?






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