My workstations eventually loose contact with the DC if the DNS is anywhere else. I don't remember the error that shows up but it becomes very annoying as it takes a long time to show but eventually does at the most inconvenient time.
I'm wondering if I can solve the problem by giving out an Internet address as the secondary DNS instead of the router address. I wanted to use the router address because the router gets its DNS addresses from ISP and if they change the router will automatically adjust. Perhaps there is a way to have DD-WRT pass on the DNS addresses it gets from the WAN side to its DNS clients. I'll post again when I have more answers. Thank - Joe On Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:11 AM, Michael Madigan wrote: > >Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:11:56 -0700 (PDT) >From: Michael Madigan >To: [email protected] >cc: >Subject: Re: [NF] handling a missing DNS server > >Why don't you just use the router since that has to be up? > > > > >--- On Tue, 6/16/09, Joe Yoder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Joe Yoder <[email protected]> >> Subject: [NF] handling a missing DNS server >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 11:55 PM >> I have a small LAN where I need >> workstations to use the DNS server on the Domain Controller >> when it is up. When the DC is down I want the >> workstations to use the DNS server built into the >> router. I am now using a router running DD-WRT as a >> DHCP server to give out the IP address of DC as the first >> DNS Server and the IP address of the router as the second >> DNS Server. >> >> While the DC is up all is well but when the DC is down the >> workstations apparently don't use the second DNS Server >> address as a ping to www.yahoo.com returns "Ping request >> could not find host www.yahoo.com" >> >> Can someone help me understand why Windows doesn't use the >> second DNS Server when the first one is not available and >> suggest an alternative solution? >> >> TIA - Joe Yoder >> >> >> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain (text body -- kept) >> text/html >> --- >> [excessive quoting removed by server]
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