mulitple dns server problem in Windows 2000

[Danny Mayer]

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                 Danny
At 04:58 AM 3/25/01, David Curwin wrote:
>We have a Windows NT network with a number of Windows 2000 workstations and
>servers.  Our DHCP server gives 3 DNS servers to clients. The first one is a
>UNIX DNS server that is is in our own network. The second two are the DNS
>servers of our ISP. The UNIX DNS server points to the ISP DNS server, and
>only holds records for a number of machines inside our own network.
>
>The problem is that the W2K machines can not ping or otherwise access any of
>the computers that are only registered on the local DNS server. When we try
>to access them we get "unknown host <computer name>." However, when we use
>nslookup to get a listing for those same machines, we get the correct IP
>address.
>
>We don't have this problem from the NT 4 machines, and on the W2K machines
>when we manually enter the DNS servers and put less than three DNS servers,
>we can ping the machines listed in the local DNS.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
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