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We are running DHCP and active directory in a single domain setup. Our server ponts to two external DNS servers, the clients get all that info from the server due to DHCP. The reason I think it is a DNS issue is because XP is more reliant on TC/IP than 98SE and we don't get the same problems with 98SE clients. Additionally some of the county IT folk have suggested DNS may be our problem. From what I can ascertain from the server DNS settings and event logs I'm sure we have no local DNS and am sure we should have. I'm very much a DNS noob, I understand the basic principles of DNS but am not sure how to implement them on the server.

No local DNS setup, see my other thread about my poor DNS skills. Our server just points to external DNS servers which causes huge login problems when we lose our connection to them. I know I need local DNS but don't know how to implement it.

I work in a school and so have limited funds available so our setup is far from ideal. We have one win2k server (single domain) running most things for 350 clients (win2k and XP pro).The council runs our firewall, e-mail and broadband routing externally and they have 2 DNS servers. Unfortunately our server has no local DNS as far as I can gather. If we lose connection to the council DNS servers, login times increase dramatically and in general they time out before logging in. I'm fairly sure that this is a DNS issue and was never a problem when the clients were win98SE. I figure that I need to get a local DNS service set up to solve this problem but don't really know how. Unfortunately I got this job in the middle of my MCSE training and was unable to continue, crucially missing implementing DNS Me and 1600 users would appreciate any help you can give or a handy link to a good DNS guide. Thanks

I read that there is a lot of unneccesary comms between an XP PC and the server during login and that there were ways to speed it up, but I lost my hard copy of the instructions and can't remember where I got them from. Any ideas what I need to do?