Newbie and Domain Name and DNS?

[jhollin1138]

Hi! Excuse my ignorance on this one; I am new to this whole 2000 Server
thing. Here is my problem.



I recently purchased and setup a 2000 Server for the company I work for.
When I set it up, I configured it to as a "Domain." Our Website and email
are hosted by an outside provider. Of course, maybe correctly or
incorrectly, I used the same domain name as our website. Let's just say
"companyname.com." Ever so often, when the users try to access our Website
or send/receive email they get a DNS error. The only way I have found to
fix this is to reset our router. My guess is that the server is "grabbing"
our internal DNS requests that are intended to go to our outside provider.
Is there some setting I missed that will forward internal "companyname.com"
calls to out outside provider? Or, maybe something else I should try?



Thanks!

 

[jhollin1138]

dj,

After the problem came up the first time, I figured I screwed up when naming
the Domain!

I will look into creating an "A" record.

Thanks for the help.