Last week we were having issues with our ISP's DNS so I pushed a GP to
set our primary DNS to use OpenDNS. Obviously this broke active
directory. So I changed the GP back. But all my Xp clients that were
pushed the GP update needed to be fixed. After disjoining and
rejoining to the domain their DNS was set back to our internal DNS
servers. I am having trouble with one laptop. No matter what I do I
cannot get the laptop to forward DNS queries to our internal name
server. From the command prompt if I type nslookup it still displays
the open DNS name server. If I do an IPCONFIG /all my internal dns
servers are listed as the primary and secondary servers but if I try
to ping an internal server the client still attempts to query
openDNS. Can I force my client to use the internal DNS servers? Any
suggestions?

DNS_ <peter.zelonis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last week we were having issues with our ISP's DNS so I pushed a GP to
> set our primary DNS to use OpenDNS. Obviously this broke active
> directory. So I changed the GP back. But all my Xp clients that were
> pushed the GP update needed to be fixed. After disjoining and
> rejoining to the domain their DNS was set back to our internal DNS
> servers. I am having trouble with one laptop. No matter what I do I
> cannot get the laptop to forward DNS queries to our internal name
> server. From the command prompt if I type nslookup it still displays
> the open DNS name server. If I do an IPCONFIG /all my internal dns
> servers are listed as the primary and secondary servers but if I try
> to ping an internal server the client still attempts to query
> openDNS. Can I force my client to use the internal DNS servers? Any
> suggestions?

Your workstations & servers shouldn't be using public DNS servers, ever,
since you're using AD. This will cause you no end of trouble. Instead, your
internal DNS server should be set with forwarders to the appropriate public
DNS servers, which you can easily change whenever you wish with little
disruption to your network.

Try posting an unedited ipconfig /all from a problem workstation (clearly
labeled "workstation") and from a DC (
" " )

Also curious as to why you'd be using group policy (netsh commands??)
instead of DHCP for this.

Read inline please.

In news:0cca10d2-2a66-472c-9324-2989d4746610@k2g2000hse.googlegroups.com,
DNS_ <peter.zelonis@gmail.com> typed:
> Last week we were having issues with our ISP's DNS so I pushed a GP to
> set our primary DNS to use OpenDNS. Obviously this broke active
> directory. So I changed the GP back. But all my Xp clients that were
> pushed the GP update needed to be fixed. After disjoining and
> rejoining to the domain their DNS was set back to our internal DNS
> servers. I am having trouble with one laptop. No matter what I do I
> cannot get the laptop to forward DNS queries to our internal name
> server. From the command prompt if I type nslookup it still displays
> the open DNS name server. If I do an IPCONFIG /all my internal dns
> servers are listed as the primary and secondary servers but if I try
> to ping an internal server the client still attempts to query
> openDNS. Can I force my client to use the internal DNS servers? Any
> suggestions?

By using a group policy to set DNS servers, all clients will use DNS servers
in the policy. You should not use an external DNS server on any member
client of an AD Domain.

--
Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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