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Windows 2K Pro and Windows NT 4 DNS

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I am rolling out some Win2K Pro PC's and have experienced some odd behavior. I have an internal DNS to resolve internal site names and point to my ISP for all other DNS. The search order is inside then outside. In Win NT/95 every request is sent to each DNS server in your search list in order, but what seems to happen in 2K is the OS asks for an internet address from my internal DNS, which it does not find. The request then goes to the outside DNS and the user finds their site, easy enough. Nowwhen the Win2K user needs to hit an internal site it does not go back to the first DNS server in it's list, but rather keeps asking my ISP for DNS of our internal sites.

Any help would be appreciated.
Matt

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by pitsnake

What you could try is to set up the workstations to only attempt to resolve DNS from the internal server, and then at the internal server set up a forwarder to the external DNS servers. You said that you only have one DNS server on site. If so youwill have a root entry "." which tells the server that it is the only server in use. Delete that "." entry and then setup the forwarders to point to the external DNS. This should solve your problems.

Good Luck,

Mike, MCSE, MCP+I

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Thanks, but if my internal DNS went down nobody would be able to get out and use the internet

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