<newbie> is this DNS okay ??

Jeff

Hey

At home I've got 2 computers (winXP and Windows Server 2003). These 2
computers are connected to each other via a gateway. Both these computers
are connected output ports on the gateway. The input port on this gateway is
the internet from isp. So these 2 computers share the same internet
connection. (the gateway is 3com OfficeConnect CableDSL gateway)

Now I've configured DNS on the win2k3 machine... I wonder if this is correct
??

Here is the output from nslookup:
Default Server : intranet.newbie.testing
Address 192.168.1.x

Hmm I think there must be something wrong here because I added configured
winXP to use the win2k3 machine as DNS server. From the winXP machine I
tryed to ping intranet.newbie.testing and didn't get any response... that
may also be caused by some error in the TCP/IP config on the winXP machine,
maybe. From the winXP machine I've tryed to ping other addresses but I don't
get any respons so far, but despite not able to ping I can browse
internet... Both these computers have the standard windows firewall
running...

In the DNS configurations I added 2 HOST (A) records:
isp.newbie.testing (ip of the gateway)
intranet.newbie.testing (ip of the DNS server, could maybe be 127.0.0.1 ??)

any suggestions??

Mathieu CHATEAU

Hello,

Windows firewall may be blockin icmp.
from the workstation:
ping myserver
arp -a
check you have a valid arp for it.

On the server, the firewall must have an exception for the dns service.

intranet.newbie.testing must be the ip on the interface of your server.
127.0.0.1, alias localhost is a local loop that exist on all windows and
unix. It point to the computer itself. So if you put this on intranet... the
XP will try to connect to itself, which is not the behaviour you are looking
for.

--
Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU



"Jeff" <.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> Hey
>
> At home I've got 2 computers (winXP and Windows Server 2003). These 2
> computers are connected to each other via a gateway. Both these computers
> are connected output ports on the gateway. The input port on this gateway
> is the internet from isp. So these 2 computers share the same internet
> connection. (the gateway is 3com OfficeConnect CableDSL gateway)
>
> Now I've configured DNS on the win2k3 machine... I wonder if this is
> correct ??
>
> Here is the output from nslookup:
> Default Server : intranet.newbie.testing
> Address 192.168.1.x
>
> Hmm I think there must be something wrong here because I added configured
> winXP to use the win2k3 machine as DNS server. From the winXP machine I
> tryed to ping intranet.newbie.testing and didn't get any response... that
> may also be caused by some error in the TCP/IP config on the winXP
> machine, maybe. From the winXP machine I've tryed to ping other addresses
> but I don't get any respons so far, but despite not able to ping I can
> browse internet... Both these computers have the standard windows firewall
> running...
>
> In the DNS configurations I added 2 HOST (A) records:
> isp.newbie.testing (ip of the gateway)
> intranet.newbie.testing (ip of the DNS server, could maybe be 127.0.0.1
> ??)
>
> any suggestions??
>
>
>