Server 03 DNS and Facebook Chat

[p858snake]

Basically a couple of weeks ago I setup a new server at dads place to replace the WHS box that broke, I've setup the domain (.local) but I'm having a bit of trouble with what I believe is DNS on the box.

 

Basically Facebook chat (as well as MSN) won't work within the domain side of things, It first manifested with Facebook not being routable at all (Ping/Tracert would return nothing at all) so I poked around and couldn't see anything so I rebooted and it started working but still have the issue with the chat side and can't see anything in the event logs or the dns window.

 

So does anyone have any ideas?

 

Diagram of the network attached.

[FN-GM]

On the Windows DNS have you set any forwarding DNS servers?

 

Thanks

[glennda]

Does Facebook Chat use any special random ports for connection? or is it all over port 443?

 

Does the Modem/router have any logs about connections?

[p858snake]

Does the Modem/router have any logs about connections?

No idea, I don't have the admin password to it yet. But when the first issue arose (not being able to connect to facebook at all) it was dying at the server and not the router, Also it is available and working on the systems outside the domain (since they use the routers dns compared to the domain dns).

[EduTech]

I'm with Zak, Have to tried

 

Open the DNS snap-in.

 

In the console tree, click the applicable Domain Name System (DNS) server.

 

Where?

 

DNS/applicable DNS server

 

On the Action menu, click Properties.

 

On the Forwarders tab, click Edit.

 

Type the IP address for the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of a forwarder, and then click OK

[glennda]

No idea, I don't have the admin password to it yet. But when the first issue arose (not being able to connect to facebook at all) it was dying at the server and not the router, Also it is available and working on the systems outside the domain (since they use the routers dns compared to the domain dns).

 

Then that rules out the router/modem - i would assume its the forwarder is not set (or the address your forwarding to doesn't like facebook!) - do as edutech suggests. I would suggest using something like google's dns (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) or Open DNS (i don't know them of the top of my head!)

[FN-GM]

You will want to set the forwarding DNS on both Router and Server DNS.

 

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