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DNS Probelms windows 2003 server

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by deerek11

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Hello I just ran into a job with a customer that has a win2003 server with domain enviroment with 7 client workstations. The DNS was never setup to my knowledge properly so all clients were set to the ISP DNS to get interent not the server, but someone ran the dns wizard and screwed up everything now each workstation has to have in the server IP in dns to see resources on server (this should be this way) but now VPN nor Remote desktop from outside of the network doens't work. Also I can't join any computer to the domain. Can any one give me any direction on how to go about resloving this Thanks

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by p.j.hutchison

I think they may have forgotten to configure the DNS Server to forward lookups to the ISP's DNS to resolve external DNS queries.

If workstations cannot join the domain, make sure that the are poiting to the server, Firewall is correctly set up (or turned off) on PCs, and DNS resolves ok.

by cg it

then workstation must have the server IP address as their DNS address to find resources in the domain.

After that, as PJ mentioned, forwarders on the DNS server provides lookup for domain names not on the local network.

After that, your perimeter router should be the default gateway out of your network to the Internet so that DNS queries not answerable by your DNS server are forwarded out the default gateway.

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