I have 2 Win2000 servers each acting as DCs with both running DHCP and DNS and one running Wins. My problem is figuring out the DNS settings on the two machines.
I am not authoritative for my domain however, from what I understand, I need to run DNS locally in order for active directory (and dynamic updates) to work correctly. Also, since I am running NAT, some machines on the inside (FTP and Mail) are accessed using different IPs by a local machine versus what they would be from the outside.
Initially, I sent up DNS on both machines and set up a zone for my domain. I've manually entered records for both mail and FTP and set the DNS settings in the TCP/IP properties on both server machines to point to server1, server2, and then two outside DNS servers hosted by our ISP.
After restarting my dynamic updates for the two machines seem to work fine. Also, in running the tests in the DNS properties window 'simple' queries work fine. However, 'recursive' queries always fail and I can get no outside name resolution on either of the local servers or any client machines that are pointing to those servers for DNS.
Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I am not authoritative for my domain however, from what I understand, I need to run DNS locally in order for active directory (and dynamic updates) to work correctly. Also, since I am running NAT, some machines on the inside (FTP and Mail) are accessed using different IPs by a local machine versus what they would be from the outside.
Initially, I sent up DNS on both machines and set up a zone for my domain. I've manually entered records for both mail and FTP and set the DNS settings in the TCP/IP properties on both server machines to point to server1, server2, and then two outside DNS servers hosted by our ISP.
After restarting my dynamic updates for the two machines seem to work fine. Also, in running the tests in the DNS properties window 'simple' queries work fine. However, 'recursive' queries always fail and I can get no outside name resolution on either of the local servers or any client machines that are pointing to those servers for DNS.
Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong would be much appreciated. Thanks.
