My company has a website through www.powweb.com. So say my company url is http://www.ABCcompany.com. Powweb has made it so that if I put anything before ABCcompany.com it will automatically resolve the address. So that means that I could actually go to: http://whatever123.ABCcompany.com http://something.ABCcompany.com and it would still resolve to my companies website. Powweb tells me they cannot change this. Now I have setup active directory and named my domain ABCcompany. So now when I ping (ie.. computer1) it resolves to computer1.ABCcompany.com 65.254.250.20. I tried to implement DHCP and DNS on active directory, and I was able to get all client computers to resolve properly. Only problem is that when I log on to the domain from a client computer it takes around 2 - 10 minutes. I know this problem has to do w/ DNS, any ideas? thanks for reading. my server's static ip address is: IP: 192.168.1.150 mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 DNS: 192.168.1.150

Do the clients ip configuration match these settings. E.g.: Client IP: 192.168.1.10 Client Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 DHCP server: 192.168.1.150 DNS server: 192.168.1.150 Standard Gateway: 192.168.1.1 The clients can, or better should get these settings via your DHCP server. Check the settings at a client computer by ipconfig /all and repost.

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thanks for replying paulsep.... I have active directory, DNS and DHCP all running on my Win2k3 server. I have around 15 workstations at my office. When I turn DHCP 'on' most client computers will get this type of address: 192.168.1.113 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 DHCP: 192.168.1.150 DNS: 192.168.1.150 sometimes to get this I would have to do an ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew when I turn DHCP server off the address would be: 192.168.1.113 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 dhcp: 192.168.1.1 (I could 'disable' this on the router if I wanted to) dns: 68.94.156.1 (I'm not sure if I could 'disable' dns though?) 68.94.157.1

If your Win2K server acts as DHCP and DNS server, you must disable DHCP at the router. Because if you use 2 DHCP servers in one network segment, you'll never know, which one will give IPs to your clients. The first and fastest one ins winning the race, if you know what I mean. The router needs the DNS entry of the DNS server of your provider, that's correct. But for all of your clients, your Win2k server is their DNS server. If your DNS server can't resolve the requests, it has to forward the request to your router or maybe your providers DNS server. This can be configured in the DNS Management Tool.

First part of your question deals with the fact you were using internet dns for local name resolution which as you can guess doesn't work correctly. (I'm not sure if I could 'disable' dns though?) You don't disable dns on the router. You disable the dhcp service on the router so you have only one dhcp server which is also your local dns server. In MS DNS server there is a "forwarders" tab. You need to put this address 68.94.157.1 in the forwarders tab [not to be confused with forward lookup zone]. This way the ms dns server will forward internet name resolution requests to the isps dns server. Example of Oxymoron: Person who is pro life and anti sex education. Education is key to prevention. Prevent conception you prevent abortion. Abstinence training clearly isn't working.