2000 professional and Server / external DNS

[ShawnAndrews]

I have an issue that needs to be resolved regarding Windows 2000 professional and Server with our external DNS numbers from our ISP.

After a while the Internet connection will just stop working, almost as if it had timed out. When I go into the advanced properties of TCP/IP and switch the DNS number on top everything works fine again. Windows 95 and 98 users on the same network have no problem at all.
Most of my 2000 professional users do not have the authority on knowledge to do this and I am having to switch their DNS number order several times each day. Any help or advice that you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shawn

 

[Dirk186]

If I understand you correctly, you are having to change the primary and secondary DNS settings multiple times daily. Seems to me that your ISP's DNS servers are unreliable. Your best bet is to set up your own internal DNS server and point all of your internal clients to it and have it forward queries to your ISP's DNS.

JR

 

[ShawnAndrews]

Dirk186,
Thanks for your reply.
I was thinking along the same lines about pointing my internal DNS server to my ISP's DNS, however this was never an issue with NT 4.0 and our Win9x clients are not having any problem with the ISP's DNS.
I called our ISP and the Tech guy said he had never even seen Win2000. Is there something new in in the way 2000 uses DNS that would cause this?
Thanks again,
Shawn

 

[debrian80917]

I have had a similar problem. Our cannection to the external DNS of our ISP seems stable enough. Our problem is with the 2 other domains (trusted) we run. Rather than switch DNS servers we use the command ipconfig /registerdns and everything comes back. Any insight as to why this is happening?

 

[ShawnAndrews]

debrian80917
I was able to resolve my issue by setting up DNS forwarding in my internal DNS server with it forwarding request to my ISPs DNS servers. Real easy to do it has worked perfectly. You can get an oversimplified How To from Microsoft at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q300202

This also helped with some 2000Pro clients that just would not connect to our domain
I hope this helps,
Shawn