DNS Settings SBS
Hi
I currently have a small business server that dns servers look like this
Primary 192.168.0.5 - Its own IP
Secondary 192.168.0.2 - DNS Server in our network,
Now the problem is. if the DNS server goes down then the SBS server looses its connection to the internet. Our ISP have given us two dns server addresses, if I put the primary dns server IP in should this work? Do I still need to keep the servers IP as its primary DNS server?
I currently have a small business server that dns servers look like this
Primary 192.168.0.5 - Its own IP
Secondary 192.168.0.2 - DNS Server in our network,
Now the problem is. if the DNS server goes down then the SBS server looses its connection to the internet. Our ISP have given us two dns server addresses, if I put the primary dns server IP in should this work? Do I still need to keep the servers IP as its primary DNS server?
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Basically we are hosting a companys email, so for example, if we wanted to restart our server, which happens to be a dns server everything within our network looses its internet connection. So the company who use the sbs server for their email loose the connection to exchange.
So shall I just add the dns servers from my ISP on the sbs server? I can only add a maxium of two though, or shall I run through the internet connection wizard and add them there?
So shall I just add the dns servers from my ISP on the sbs server? I can only add a maxium of two though, or shall I run through the internet connection wizard and add them there?
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oh OK, so all i need to do is setup the sbs to forward to my ISP dns servers?
>> So shall I just add the dns servers from my ISP on the sbs server <<
NO NO NO
You can actually have more than 2 by going the the advanced tab but DONT, if will cause internal name resolution issues
NO NO NO
You can actually have more than 2 by going the the advanced tab but DONT, if will cause internal name resolution issues
yes, setup the sbs to forward to my ISP dns servers
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ok, it seems pretty simple to do this... ok so when this is done, shall i remove the 192.168.0.2 from the secondary dns server or can this be kept?
If that server does not contain the DNS zone for your own domain then you should remove it
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OK so far so good! Thank you for your help KCTS
What else is on the DNS server in your network that is not in the SBS DNS?
Why not put the ISP servers in as the second and third DNS servers?