Extremely slow win2k domain.....

[spidey07]

The only time a workstation attempts to contact its secondary DNS is if the first is unavailable.

A little more on that statement. It depends entirely on the MS operating system and patch level you are running at. Some OS/patch will fail on a DNS error (record not found). Others will contact the secondary. Most try both at the same time. Literally.

Heck even to this day MS hasn't fixed the bug where a 98, NT, 2000, XP computer will query the secondary FIRST and never try again (well they fix it in some patch levels then break it again). Causes havoc with internal DNS/WINS servers replicating only every 12 hours or more. Clients are totally freaked out that changes to hostnames or netbios names don't work until the next day.

The moral of the story is don't believe anything you read or see with MS dns. Throw a sniffer on the wire and realize nothing is as it seems or documented by microsoft.

 

[Garion]

This might be a bit basic, but try and install the a WINS server on your win2K server, then point the WINS settings on each of your workstations to point to it. That should let it resolve the domain the "old fashioned way", rather than the AD way, but it'll still work nicely.

You can manually set WINS addresses, then let DHCP care care of the rest - The local setting always overrides the DHCP-server provided info.

- G

 

[me19562]

Add a second network card and plug it to the campus network in the Win2k server, configure NAT in RRAS in the Win2K server and config your DNS with primary zones and add the dns servers of the resnet as fowarders to yours dns server. Plug the other network card to the hub and set it with private static ip and config the dhcp to give the tcpip config to the rest of your internal pc's. With something like this then u can play and learn as much u want of Win2k server.

 

[jazzman42379]

Tried that. Had 2 network cards, set up routing on the server, and everything worked fine....with one major exception. For some reason I couldn't get to my POP3 mail account from the inside of the server network. Hence why I switched back to having them all set up on Resnet

Jazzman