DNS

[kevin_lane]

i don't know if any one else has came across this but for some reason some of our kids can get on the Internet and then some cant

if you have 1 zone on the primary dns server zone called zyx.local and in an active directory integrated do you need to setup zone transfers from the primary and 2ndry server cus i'm sure you have too don't you ?? (don't like this integrated stuff even though i know its good) as some times our internal traffic isnt getting resolved e.g. our intra net site. even though nothing has changed in dns or dhcp dns thats sets the dns for the kids. but what is also weird our department can get on the Internet with out any probs and we have rebooted the servers last night but still have this prob

[DMcCoy]

if its AD integrated and DNS is installed onto an additional server then you can cancel the zone wizard during install and just wait for it to add the zone itself.

[kevin_lane]

so you dont need to do a zone transfer then as its intergrated

[kevin_lane]

but how come some of our kids computers cant resolve the intra net page

[DMcCoy]

but how come some of our kids computers cant resolve the intra net page

what does a nslookup of the address thats not working tell you? What's the ipconfig /all output?

[kevin_lane]

the ip adress all point to the same server 10.25.8.2 and 10.25.8.4 thats all staff and all students i've done querys on the dns servers and they all pass this is on my comp
N:\>nslookup
Default Server: ntserver.westpark.local
Address: 10.25.8.2

kids comp
N:\>nslookup
Default Server: ntserver.westpark.local
Address: 10.25.8.2

says the same thing

[kevin_lane]

just tried doing nslookup www.google.co.uk and saying no-existing domain ?

[DMcCoy]

are the forwarders set correctly on both dns servers?

[srochford]

The other thing to check is that the DNS server thinks it's OK - in the management console, right click the server, do properties and then monitoring - tick both tests and see what happens.

[kevin_lane]

yea forwarders are ok its also internal problem as well on ntserver (primary) i think the recursive query fails but before that the both say pass
date time simple query recursive query
31/1/08 11:24:29 pass pass
31/1/08 11:11:22 pass

[DMcCoy]

try a few nslookups using your isp's dns servers to see if one of them is failing, it could be those that are at fault if all your local lookups always work