khaled azzaz wrote:
> I have 3 dc's ( windows 2003 at the same site). I configure the same
> forwarder on all of them. I set up dns on all of them to point to
> themselves and to the other DNS servers. Everything worksfine
> internally. One of the DC's is a remote access server (VPN).
> Sometimes, VPN users can not ping the other 2 servers, and sometimes
> they can.
> I have 2 questions:
> Is my setup right for the DNS?
> and do you think VPN users not pinging other servers is the result of
> DNS issues?
> They can ping the remote access server and comes back as the ip
> address of the VPN connection not the actual ip address of the server
> itself. ( the remote access server is 10.0.1.7(DC3) and the ip
> address for VPN connection
> 10.0.1.130, and when they ping DC3 it comes back as 10.0.1.130 and not
> 10.0.1.7)
> Thnaks for any reply.

Use the Hosts file or WINS for NetBIOS name resolution.

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