DNS on 2003 from behind a router?

[Cheops]

Hi,

Could someone tell me if it is possible to host a dns server on windows 2003 if the server is stuck behind a router.

so basically my setup is

INTERNET

LINKSYS ROUTER

SERVER

WORKSTATION 1

WORKSTATION 2

WORKSTATION 3 etc........

The problem i'm having is my server has a local IP address 192.168.0.1 and the router has my external static ip (80.x.x.x) address. When ever I do a dns check it says that my server is reporting back that it has different glue because of the local IP address

How could I get round this?

Thanks in advance.

[tguy]

Try setting up your external DNS servers as forwarders in the properties of your DNS server on WIN2K3.

Have your clients get their DNS settings exclusively from the WIN2K3 server.

I have the exact same setup and the above works just fine for me. You do not need to configure port 53 on the router for this to work.

Good luck.

[Cheops]

thanks for replying so basically I need to setup the forwarders to be my ISP's dns servers and DNS Report will say the correct IP address instead of the local Ip address

Thanks