[Winger300]

Im using ICS to share my broadband connection, im using a USB DSL modem.

Ive setup AD, DHCP and DNS, but clients cannot resolve external names, but can ping external IP addresses.

Im guessing i need to setup another DNS server for external name resolution and one for internal network names. How do i do this?

[clutch]

Setup your internal DNS servers to use "forwarders", and have those forwarders set to your old outside (ISP) DNS server IPs.

[Winger300]

It wont let me set that becuase i have it set as a root dns server. So i suppose the question to be asked is how do i change that?

[clutch]

This is in your online documentation that comes with Win2K server, but in case you haven't looked there yet:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/...ode.htm?id=1848

[Winger300]

I've read most of that and im still unsure of what to do. Im told "Forwarders are not available becuase this is a root server" but cannot find how i change the server.

[Winger300]

If i remove the DNS network component and re-install it, it reports that it cannot set the root hints in the registry.

When i first configure it, i can set the Forwarders, but then once ive closed the console and opened it again, its all ghosted. Any ideas what to do?

[Winger300]

What ive done now is set up DHCP to give clients my isp's DNS server ip. This allows the connecting computers Internet access, but i guess then i loose caching, recursion and internal DNS data.

I would still like to know how i enable my server to allow forwarders.

Thanks for the help so far though.

[clutch]

Doing that will degrade and eventually destroy your client's ability to resolve AD resources. I would suggest reading through the documentation on setting up DNS, and then starting over. It isn't hard, but you need to understand the concept before you jump into it again.

[Winger300]

I've no idea what im doing wrong with the dns setup though!

[Winger300]

I just removed AD and installed it again, im not sure what ive done differently this time, but it looks like its all working properly as it should. Thanks