dns problem

[ava11]

Hi I have just upgraded my servers to W2K, and installed DNS on one of my servers, my router is running my DHCP, servers and all computers that have to be availabe from the outside have real static IP numbers but all others are using CIDR IP numbers from the router, which is also the gateway between the two IP networks.

All is doing well except that computers using DHCP cannot resolve any hostnames in the browser, if I use ip numbers instead all is well. I have tried nslookup on a wkstn running dhcp and all hostnames resolve fine but not in the browser. Same wkstn with static IP has no problems.

Prior to upgrading to w2k i was using the ISP dns and both static and dhcp worked fine.

Any hints on this appreciated.

 

[bgssgk]

If you are on the wkstn with dhcp is you dhcp server assigning the DNS server as well do an ipconfig and check what dns server its pointing to.

However, if you can run nslookup and resolve the names correctly and not do it with the browser that is really strange. When you do a nslookup is it pointing to your internal server ?

as an aside I have never seen a real need for internal DNS unless you are operating a complex setup, because the internal DNS server will timeout more often since it is yet another step from the backbone. (if you insist on running the DNS then make sure the recursive queries from your dns server have a place to go on failure)

More detail of your network setup might help further.
Only other thing i might think is that your gateway/firewall is not allowing the dns query, but again I'd need to know more about the how your doing the routed/non-routed network setup

hope something here helps