Hi Derek, This sounds like a fairly common W2K error. When you install the first DC in a new domain, you get DNS automatically. Presumably when you did dcpromo, you made the server the root in a new forest and called it something like internal.com. I made the same mistake, my domain is sargeant.ch.
Problem here is that the DNS will have "." configured within it's zone, and will never forward queries to the external dns. In fact, you will be unable to configure it to forward dns requests unless you first remove the root. In short, it thinks it's the root dns server in an entirely independent intranet and wants to know nothing about any Internet. To fix this, use the dns mmc. Right click the dns server and take "properties". There should be a tab marked Forwarders. If it's not there, then your dns is certainly configured as a root server. It will not forward dns queries it cannot resolve itself - they will just fail. To remove the "." (working from memory here) you need to delete it from the zone file in dns. After that, you should be able to find the forwarders tab. Here you must enter the IP addresses of the (usually two) dns servers at your ISP. This tells the dns server where to forward queries it cannot resolve. After this is done, it will forward any queries it cannot resolve to your ISP's dns servers. As I said, from memory, and I'm running XP on my dns so it looks different, but dns is dns. Let me know if I'm correct. Best, Richard Sargeant, MCSE, MCT Wollerau, Switzerland email business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +41 (79) 405 12 44 Fax: +41 (1) 687 89 01 List info: http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
