internet access.. easy ?

[Joe]

Hi...

Whats the setting that gives the server (2003) and clients access to the
internet ?
Is it configuring the forwarders on the dns server to point to the isp's
dns ?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

That is certainly a start but do you have NAT or ICS running on the server?
Do the clients have real IP's or private ones? We would need to know a
little more about your setup to make sure you get all the things to make
this work.......

 

[Joe]

No Nat or ICS running...cisco pix firewall though.
Client addresses are private..
How about manually adding the isp's dns to the clients ?

Thanks...

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

Ok, so the PIX is doing NAT. If this is Windows 2000 Active Directory
environment the clinets MUST point to your internal DNS server and then that
DNS server must have forwarders configured for your ISP's DNS. You could try
it as a test,adding DNS to clients, because if that works then you know it's
your internal DNS servers. If not then I would suspect the PIX is blocking
the clients somehow.

 

[Joe]

Thanks for your input....

Ok, so the PIX is doing NAT. If this is Windows 2000 Active Directory
environment the clinets MUST point to your internal DNS server and then that
DNS server must have forwarders configured for your ISP's DNS. You could try
it as a test,adding DNS to clients, because if that works then you know it's
your internal DNS servers. If not then I would suspect the PIX is blocking
the clients somehow.

 

[Shane Brasher]

Hello All,

A clean way to provide internet access is to point everyone to your
internal DNS server and set the internal DNS server to forward to the
external ISP. In general, you always want to keep all local DNS queries
local to the domain and everything else to forward out.

Shane Brasher
MCSE (2003,2000,NT),MCSA Security, A+
Microsoft Platforms Support
Windows NT/2000 Networking