DNS trouble with internet sharing!

[JonnieStyle]

Hi all.

My PDC (W2K / active directory) has a dial up connection which is
shared. The other machines on the network are connected to this
machine, and they receive their IP addresses from it. I've pointed
the DNS on the client machines to 192.168.0.1 (which is the IP of the
PDC) to speed up the logon process. However, none of the client
machines can connect to the internet in spite of the connection being
shared.
Rather, I can connect to an IP address but not a host name -
therefore, my DNS isn't properly configured. I am, however, at a loss
for what to do. I've set the PDC card's IP to 192.168.0.1, the modem
obviously receives it's IP automatically, I've tried setting the DNS
servers from the modem connection to be the DNS servers for the
ethernet connection but that won't help.

If I set the DNS servers that appear from the modem connection on a
client machine, I can access the internet just fine, but local logon
takes forever!

I'd like to have my cake and eat it too! What am I doing wrong? Or
what am I not doing?

 

[Danny Sanders]

You need to set up forwarding on your AD DNS server. Point the AD DNS server
to itself for DNS, point all clients to the AD DNS server only and configure
your AD DNS server to forward requests and list your ISP's DNS server as the
forwarder.
See:
How to: Configure DNS for Internet Access In Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300202





hth

DDS W 2k MVP MCSE