DNS on Dial-Up Connection

[stutzdaniel]

Hi,

On my Server I have 1 network connection to our Lan. Additionaly there
is a Dial-Up Connection, which is sometimes used to dial to an ISP.
There is DNS assigned on the Lan Connection and on the Dial-UP
Connections (when active).

Question: How can I make the Dial-Up DNS Server to become the primary
DNS, as long as this connection is active??

Thanks, Dani

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

s> How can I make the Dial-Up DNS Server to become the primary
s> DNS, as long as this connection is active??

What do you mean by "the primary DNS" ? Do you mean the preferred DNS server
?

 

[Kevin Goodknecht [MVP]]

In

Hi,

On my Server I have 1 network connection to our Lan. Additionaly there
is a Dial-Up Connection, which is sometimes used to dial to an ISP.
There is DNS assigned on the Lan Connection and on the Dial-UP
Connections (when active).

Question: How can I make the Dial-Up DNS Server to become the primary
DNS, as long as this connection is active??

Thanks, Dani

You should never do this if this is an AD domain. In fact the dial up
connection itself should use the internal DNS address, if this is an AD
domain.
If your internal DNS does not resolve internet names it may have a Root "."
forward lookup zone. Delete that zone refresh the DNS console or close and
re-open the console, then you can enable a forwarder to your ISP's DNS
servers.
300202 - HOW TO: Configure DNS for Internet Access in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300202&FR=1

 

[stutzdaniel]

s> How can I make the Dial-Up DNS Server to become the primary
s> DNS, as long as this connection is active??

What do you mean by "the primary DNS" ? Do you mean the preferred DNS server
?

Furhter explanations to my post:
This server is a networking monitoring server, which should send an
alerting email via dial-up connection in case there is a problem with
our infrastrukture.

So I want the smtp-name to be resolved by the DNS server assigned by
the ISP on the Dial-UP adapter and not by our internal DNS server
(internal dns could be affected by the problem causing the alert-email
and thus the email cannot be sent!).

How can I achive this?

Thanks, Dani