Can someone help me better understand DNS on W2K

[ei8ball]

I'm having a DNS issue at work where if I'm in one office I can goto an internal website, but if I'm in a different one then I can't. I don't understand enough about DNS to look at our DNS settings and figure out why it works for one and not the other. Like I don't understand why my region (with 30 some offices needs 52 forward lookup zones, one for each server in our domain.

I guess I'm hoping to find a website that would explain this more so I can pick apart our DNS server more and understand it more so I CAN troubleshoot the issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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[FestusMcShamus]

if i understand you correctly, you are saying that dns is working internally for the particular site you are in, but when you try another location things aren't resolving, . I would check to see if you have set up the different dns servers to replicate to each other. check that one zone's forward lookup has the other dns server set up as a nameserver. good luck

 

[GlenJohnson]

Try and do an tracert to a machine you can't access and see where it dies out. Good luck.

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[pmyint]

Not sure whats going on there my friend but here are some links which will help you get a better understanding - i am a newbie myself so there is a lot to read! good luck

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/communications/dns/default.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/support/win2000/dns.asp

http://www.jsiinc.com/_vti_script/reghackSrch.htm0.idq

http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=microsoft.public.win2000.dns

DNS is like a bloody minefield - hope this helps ya.



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