DNS Issue

[ZeRoMaX]

I have installed DNS and i can ping all the computers inside my network. But when i go and ping other computers outside my the company (like say for example my exchange box at my other location) i get an unknown host. So I assume the forwarders are not working correctly. Since if I change the DNS entries to my ISP DNS I can ping the exchange server.

Thks
Chris

 

[Jpoandl]

Yes, you have probably still have the "." root within your internal DNS heirarchy. Delete the "." and set forwarding to your ISP DNS servers. This way, when a query is made internally to external hosts, your DNS server will forward the request to the ISP DNS servers.

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

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[ZeRoMaX]

But the thing is I did delete "." and have forwards pointing to the DNS of the ISP right now. And it is still like that.

 

[tom11011]

how are you pinging? FQDN or IP?

 

[GlenJohnson]

What does nslookup give you? Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"Patience is more powerful than force."
Plutarch (46-125 A.D.);

 

[sw1llam3]

This might seem like a dumb question, but have you set up your server with a secondary zone of the other primary zones in your network?