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If you have a forwarder setup, it will ask the server listed where the dns entry is. I'm not 100% sure how you have your system setup, so I can say for sure on your's, but that's the general idea. If you right click on the DNS server in the DNS snapin go to properties and in those tabs you will find the forwarder section.<br />
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Also, check this out:<br />
<a href="http://www.petri.co.il/install_and_configure_windows_2003_dns_server.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.petri.co.il/install_and_configure_windows_2003_dns_server.htm</a>
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If you have a forwarder setup, it will ask the server listed where the dns entry is. I'm not 100% sure how you have your system setup, so I can say for sure on your's, but that's the general idea. If you right click on the DNS server in the DNS snapin go to properties and in those tabs you will find the forwarder section.

Also, check this out:
http://www.petri.co.il/install_and_configure_windows_2003_dns_server.htm [http://www.petri.co.il/install_and_configure_windows_2003_dns_server.htm]

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Man ... that was fast!<br />
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Thanks ... <br />
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CDCOP - I was looking more for how the local station determined the route.
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Man ... that was fast!

Thanks ...

CDCOP - I was looking more for how the local station determined the route.

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I don't pretend to be an expert in DNS .... <br />
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But I've got a dual-NIC server, one side pointing to the outside world, the other inside. &nbsp;The default gateway points externally, as does the DNS. &nbsp;If I do an NSLOOKUP on the box, I jump to the outside (142.77.1.1) UUNet outside address. &nbsp;But if I type PING and put an internal DNS name in, it knows to use my internal DNS.<br />
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My question is how does it know to go external or internal, especially when my default gateway points outward. &nbsp;So if I work for xyz.com, and type ping donald.inside.xyz.com it resolves the IP on my internal DNS, but if I type ping google.ca it resolves outside ... where is that decision made???<br />
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Thanks!
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I don't pretend to be an expert in DNS .... 

But I've got a dual-NIC server, one side pointing to the outside world, the other inside.  The default gateway points externally, as does the DNS.  If I do an NSLOOKUP on the box, I jump to the outside (142.77.1.1) UUNet outside address.  But if I type PING and put an internal DNS name in, it knows to use my internal DNS.

My question is how does it know to go external or internal, especially when my default gateway points outward.  So if I work for xyz.com, and type ping donald.inside.xyz.com it resolves the IP on my internal DNS, but if I type ping google.ca it resolves outside ... where is that decision made???

Thanks!

DNS Question

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).