DNS error

[Sareimer]

hello,

I am having an issue adding a client to a SBS2003 system...
---system has 45 users, this particular user is "out back" in a warehouse...he has a line pulled about 25 feet to a cisco e1000 router that another user has...that other user is plugged in fine.

I posted in dns for the simple fact dns errors keep popping up.

when I run Nslookup:
result is- non-existent domain
DNS time out
192.168.1.2 timed out
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errors are:
dns controlers in dns are not connected
and
host a records/map of domain controller/ip address is missing
and
no ptr record

 

[cajuntank]

So a couple of questions... Is the e1000 your main router to the Internet? Is DHCP running on the e1000 to provide IP addressing? Is DHCP running on the SBS to provide IP addressing?

Reason for some of these questions is the way you explain this warehouse situation would imply the need for a switch, but you state you have a router which is the wrong piece of equipment to have unless that's where your connecting into the Internet. These routers come default with DHCP server enabled to hand out addresses, but I'm thinking your SBS is also handing out addresses as well. So you might have the e1000 handing out address info which will provide it's own DNS info and then you have the SBS providing it's own DNS info...

If this doesn't help, please provide a little more detail on how things are connected.

 

[GlenJohnson]

First, simple stuff. Can you ping the stuff out back. If the other user is using it, are there security issues the other user had to address when he set up his e1000? Can't always just plug and play with routers. Are the cables good? Just a few thoughts. Good luck.

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