On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 07:18:23 -0500, "clamfuddle" <vader1 at flash.net>
wrote:
>Thank you for the information, let me answer your questions and clarify...
>
>1. On your advice, I set up forwarders. There was not a "." root zone.
>
>2. I lost all website functionality, as well as the ability to resolve
> email server names internally.
>
>You asked: If they're internal, are they not showing up in your DNS on the
>W2k server?
>
>Yes, they are internal, and they did not show up. I did create a www
>record, pointing to the
>IP address of my server (192.168.1.100)
>
>My website and email web-based administration both are on this same machine
>and _were_ working
>until I squashed my DNS. My ability to collect email from within my LAN was
>gone until I added the
>smtp, pop3 and mail records - also pointing to 192.168.1.100...
Were the web based portions of your server set to answer on a specific
IP or All Unassigned? Do you use host headers which may need to be
adjusted?
Jeff
>
>"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> clamfuddle wrote:
>> > Doh.
>> >
>> > Well, I seem to have fixed part of it at least.
>> >
>> > I have a Windows 2000 server (only server on my network) and I was
>> > told that it should point to itself as the only DNS server, so I
>> > changed my DNS address
>> > to that of the server (192.168.1.100).
>>
>> That is a Good Thing in Active Directory. Did you also set up forwarders
>to
>> your ISP's DNS servers? You need to do that... Set up forwarders in your
>> AD-integrated DNS server to point to several public DNS servers (you may
>> need to remove the "." -- root zone -- first). Then make sure that all
>> servers & workstations specify *only* the internal DNS server's IP address
>> in their TCP/IP settings.
>> >
>> > I lost all website functionality, as well as the ability to resolve
>> > email server names
>> > internally.
>>
>> If they're internal, are they not showing up in your DNS on the W2k
>server?
>> >
>> > I added some new hosts in the forward lookup zone (trying
>> > anything...) - pop3, www, smtp, mail,
>> > and ftp, all pointing to 192.168.1.100 since this server provides
>> > all these services.
>> >
>> > This apparently resolved my pop3, and smtp lookup issues because I
>> > can now collect mail again (whew!)
>> > but I can't get my website from either inside my firewall or outside
>> > my firewall.
>>
>> Where's your website hosted?
>>
>> > Nor can I manage my email system which is HTML based.
>>
>> Where is the mail server?
>> >
>> > Can anyone help step me through my settings and help me find my
>> > problem?
>> >
>> > Thanks greatly!
>> >
>> > Bryan
>>
>>
>
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