Windows 2003 DNS help

[Guest]

I am stumped and need help with a DNS issues on W2K3 Enterprise.
I have AD/DNS/DHCP installed and running. Cuurently all the machines are in
a workgroup and not part of the domain. All the machines however are getting
their IP from the DHCP server and running fine. When I add a machine to the
domain is when all hell breaks loose. Approx 30 minutes after joining a
machine to the domain it loses the ability to get on the internet through
explorer. If you type in a name it bombs out with page cannot be displayed.
If you type in the IP address of a site it works fine. I know this related to
DNS but I cannot for the life of me figure out the issue. Everything seems to
be configured fine. Any ideas out there? Please help

 

[Danny Sanders]

Make sure your AD DNS server points to itself only in the properties of
TCP/IP for DNS. Use the actual IP address not 127.0.0.1.

Make sure all AD clients point to the AD DNS server ONLY.

For Internet access set up your AD DNS server to forward requests and list
your ISP's DNS server as the forwarder. This is the only place on the domain
where your ISP's DNS servers should be listed. You can also use root hints
for internet access.

See:
Best Practices for DNS Client settings in Windows 2000 server and in Windows
Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825036

Setting Up the Domain Name System for Active Directory

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;237675

How to configure DNS for Internet access in Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323380



hth

DDS W 2k MVP MCSE