BigDaddy Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 it does not work. Could my DNS server be setup wrong?I have entries under the CACHE in the DNS Configuration screen. But those entries are for web pages only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 so if you resolve a name on your win2k3 server and type ipconfig /displaydns you see the pcs listed that you have resolved? and yet your XP box cannot resolve these names even with the win2k3 server as its dns server? is this correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDaddy Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 (edited) so if you resolve a name on your win2k3 server and type ipconfig /displaydns you see the pcs listed that you have resolved? no I do not.this is what I did on the W2k3 box:ipconfig /flushdnsthen I accessed '\\acer-travelmate' and click on some of his folders and also pinged it by its dns name which gave me the IP '88.200.110.xxx'then I did ipconfig /displaydnsand this is the output:Windows IP Configuration 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa ---------------------------------------- Record Name . . . . . : 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. Record Type . . . . . : 12 Time To Live . . . . : 482949 Data Length . . . . . : 4 Section . . . . . . . : Answer PTR Record . . . . . : localhost tomi // the name of my WinXP box ---------------------------------------- Record Name . . . . . : tomi Record Type . . . . . : 1 Time To Live . . . . : 482949 Data Length . . . . . : 4 Section . . . . . . . : Answer A (Host) Record . . . : 192.168.0.2 acer-travelmate ---------------------------------------- Name does not exist. 2.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa ---------------------------------------- Record Name . . . . . : 2.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Record Type . . . . . : 12 Time To Live . . . . : 482949 Data Length . . . . . : 4 Section . . . . . . . : Answer PTR Record . . . . . : tomi localhost ---------------------------------------- Record Name . . . . . : localhost Record Type . . . . . : 1 Time To Live . . . . : 482949 Data Length . . . . . : 4 Section . . . . . . . : Answer A (Host) Record . . . : 127.0.0.1 Edited February 10, 2008 by BigDaddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 its not caching like it should, i wonder why? Does anyone know why?maybe its something to do with the security of 2003? if the XP box were in its place i wonder if it would behave the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDaddy Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 I added a laptop, JONSON, to my LAN and pinged it from WinXP machine and also accessed its shared drives. And then launched 'ipconfig displaydns'and there was no mention of such computer.But when I pinged and accessed the same computer on W2k3 server 'ipconfig displaydns' just said:jonson----------------------------------------Name does not exist.what else can I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoestring Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 I'm not too sure, but can't you just make a static ip address for your xp machine, giving the dns address of your server running dns, then add host records in dns for all the machines on your network.Sorry my answer is so brief, I'm in a hurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDaddy Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 I'm not too sure, but can't you just make a static ip address for your xp machine, giving the dns address of your server running dns, then add host records in dns for all the machines on your network.Sorry my answer is so brief, I'm in a hurry.I could try. But how do I do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 hey come to think of it that might just work, if everyone has a static address, using the routes i gave you and adding DNS A records manually through dnsmgmt.msc i think you could get it to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoestring Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Well, I'm assuming dns is already installed on server. If not, go to server roles and install dns. Like eyeball said, assign static ip's to all machines on the network. I'm thinking static routes won't be necessary if ip's are static. The only comp really using the server's dns will be your xp machine.The xp machine will have to have the dns address entered in as your servers ip.In dns, you can add host(computer ip addresses) A records on by one in the dns console.Then, the dns on your server tells your xp machine what private addresses the other machines have.If the other machines have public addresses, static routes might be required(although I'm not too sure).Give it a try.Shoestring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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