Win95 machine not looking at 2nd and 3rd DNS

[nobody]

Delmer

I specifically don't want the internal to work as a forwarder.  We are
only allowing those users with "Internet Access", to have the ISP DSN's
in their setup, everyone else should not be able to see them.

This is a rather dumb way of stopping unauthorised users accessing the
internet, I know, but at present its the only method we have

Mark

Delmer Harris wrote:
> 
> I think this has come up before and was determined to be a misunderstanding
> about the multiple resolvers in the local equivalent of resolv.conf.  The
> correct behavior is as you described - if the resolver on W95 receives any
> response from DNS#1 it will _not_ go to DNS#2 or DNS#3.  It is only when
> there is no response from DNS#1 that it will go to DNS#2.
> 
> You could achieve what you appear to desire by configuring your internal
> DNS to use the ISP's DNS as 'forwarder' DNS machines.  Then your internal
> DNS will check itself first, then ask the ISP's DNS to resolve what it
> can't resolve and return the answer to the W98 machines.
> 
> YMMV
> 
> nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> on 03/09/2000 11:36:19 AM
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>  Subject: Win95 machine not looking at 2nd and 3rd DNS
> 
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I have a Win 95 machine which is set up to look at 3 DNS servers.  The
> first is our internal, and the second and third are the ISP's.  If I
> look for a web address, the machine will query only the internal then
> give up (checked this with a packet sniffer).
> 
> The internal DNS is sat on a linux box and serves subdomains beneath our
> internet registered domain (ie. registed domain foo.com, this box does
> london.foo.com and paris.foo.com).  The machine has no zone for root
> ".".
> 
> However, other machines I have seem to work fine (a linux box (not the
> name server), and an NT box.  I'v done a quick test and it seems I have
> the same problem with another win95 machine as well.
> 
> Any ideas (i'm sure it was working before)
> 
> Mark Taylor