DNS Problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c22j7o$1653$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "Merlin" <test at nospam.com> 
wrote:

> Sorry if this double posts I think my outlook has gone crazy!
> 
> Hey group,
> 
> We have 5 sites all linked via a VPN. When we came in this morning none of
> our sites could ping via the DNS name, only the IP address. We noticed on
> our VPN routers that the all ports are open except the Broadcast ports?

What are "broadcast ports"?

> Could someone tell me do we need broadcast on our routers for DNS to work.
> If so what port do we need Open?

DNS doesn't make use of broadcasts.

> We have windows 2000 servers, and all the sites clients are on static IPs

Are you running BIND on your Windows servers?  If not, why are you 
posting to this list?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA