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Ok here is my situation, I have a Windows 2000 server DC with 5 clients running Windows 2000, I also have a Windows 2000 server running Exchange 5.5 on that same domain, my 2000 server DC also acts as my DNS server, my question is how and what are the best way to setup my Exchange 5.5 mail server, as it stands now I cannot send or receive mail what am I doing wrong? I understand these questions are a bit general so I will be happy to supply any info you may need to help me.

Hands microphone to TWWBA...

Ok here it is, I just found out that I can send and recieve e-mail internally, so that is working fine, my problem is getting them from the outside. My internet connection IS comming from my DC/DNS, how do I point Exchange to that DNS server?? and how exactly do I find out the whole "zone transfers" thing? I believe the test messages I am sending from the outside are sitting out there somewhere because I am not recieving any e-mails telling me that it can not reach the reciepeant.

I have never had to run 5.5 in a 2000 domain (thankfully!). Did you change the LDAP port number?

Change it to what????

Read here:

MSKB

basicaly all my machines have a static IP and I am behind a Linky and all my machines have a gateway IP of that linky. I have the DC/DNS machine with a DNS IP of that of my ISP and the rest of my machines DNS ip is that of my DC/DNS............Holy cow I hope this makes sense to you.

I have the DC/DNS machine with a DNS IP of that of my ISP

Explain what you mean by this? What do you get for DNS when you type ipconfig /all on the DC, and what is it on the Exchange server?

The only thing different is "ip routing enabled" on my Exchange machine it is set at "no" and on my DC it is set for "yes" and obviously the DNS is different on my DC, it is pointed to my ISP.

obviously the DNS is different on my DC, it is pointed to my ISP.

Wrong! It shouldn't be! DNS on ALL pc's and servers should resolve to the internal DNS server. You then configure the DNS to use forwarders to resolve outside your own namespace. If your DC shows your ISP's DNS then you have it configured incorrectly.

So your saying that my DNS server should point to itself???? maybe I did not make that clear, my DC is also my DNS server.

Absolutely- your DNS server (which is also your DC) needs to point to itself. Do you have forwarders set up? If not, you need to, and remove the ISP dns entries from the DC.

YOSC pointed me to this thread, cause we had another poster with DNS issues a while back, and we went through quite an explanation on DNS. I'll look for it here if you want.

But- basically, as strange as this sounds.... yes- you point your DC/DNS to itself, and only itself for resolution. If it needs resolution outside of your zone, it uses dns forwarders to resolve- THIS is where you put your ISP's DNS ip's.

Hey- found the old thread:

old DNS thread

Wow that was a pretty intense thread.......I did what you said and setup my DC with a DNS pointing to itself and all seems well so far, but here is my question, when I right click on the "forward lookup zone" option and click on "new zone" what exactly am I putting in here? any address I want????? and how familar are you with the "New Mail Exchanger" (MX) option? will I need to fill this out to configure my Exchange server.

You shouldn't have to create a new forward lookup zone. Have you configured forwarders yet? Don't worry about MX record yet- we need to get this right first.

BTW- have to finish tomorrow. I'll check back in the morning.

Strangely enough I had already enabled forwarding and put in my ISP's DNS server, however I must say that this has me confused, follow me if you can!

-SERVER NAME
-Cached Lookups
-.
+arpa
+com
+net
+org

Whats up with arpa, com, net and org? Hope ya ate your Wheaties this morning!!!!

Whats up with arpa, com, net and org?

Just cached lookups from the forwarders- normal

Hope ya ate your Wheaties this morning!!!!

No Wheaties, but I've been up since 4, and have a nice, comfortable caffeine buzz going...

Post back when you're ready.

Tim

(paces back and forth) Geez.... had to make a 2nd pot!!

I beleive it is Sunday where you live as well....... do you ever rest?Well I am not sure where to go from here, everything seems to be running except for Exchange, I did the "reverse lookup zone" thing as well. What else should I look for?

OK- so now time to make sure all DNS is correct- ipconfig /all on DC- what are results? ipconfig /all on exchange server- results?

Also, any errors of ANY kind in event viewers of both servers?

do you ever rest?

Sure- bed at 10- up at 4.

All is good on bothe machines, DNS all points to DNS server, forwarding is pointing to ISP, as far as the event viewer.....On my DC/DNS server there is nothing logged? on the Exchange box the only error I am getting is


Event Type: Error
Event Source: BROWSER
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8032
Date: 12/6/2003
Time: 4:28:12 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SUPERBEAST04
Description:
The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{189BC30C-E66A-4C14-B958-139DCA4F2F78}. The backup browser is stopping.
Data:
0000: 40 00 00 00 @...

Superbeast....

Don't worry about that (now). Did you change the LDAP port as per my prior link?

Also thought I would throw this in, when I type "nslookup" this is what I get

*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.103: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.103

Uh-oh.... that's not good- are you getting that on the Exchange server, or all workstations?

All workstations!!! also I just changed the LDAP port to 25 on the exchange box as per http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;Q224447

Something is still not right with DNS. If nslookup on a domain WS does not resolve to your network name server, then it's screwed up.

In the domain fwd lookup zone, does the soa record show the DNS server correctly?

Yes it looks like this "COMPUTERNAME.DOMAINNAME.LOCAL"

are you running dhcp? If so, on the server, or from the Linksys?

Negative.....no DHCP going on here.

Then how are the workstations configured? Manual entries for DNS? If so, what is the entry?

Although in my Linky settings it shows up as "obtain ip automatically" however I do not think this matters as DHCP is disabled on it.

Then how are the workstations configured? Manual entries for DNS? If so, what is the entry?

??

Anyway, there should be (I think.... can't remember) be a DHCP tab in the linky config pages, to select if you're using it as a dhcp server. WAN interface DHCP should be enabled, if you're on broadband, unless you have a static IP

All DNS entries point to the DNS server.

Yes I do have a static ip.

Maybe dumb question, but these workstations HAVE joined the domain, haven't they??

Hehe.....yes they are all on the domain.

I'm missing something here.... I need to make my feeble brain think of what it is. Something simple probably. Sometimes I'm not a very good troubleshooter unless my face is in front of the machine, ya know?

Give me a few minutes.... I'll stew about this one

Ok one quick note.... I tried to setup my linky with a static ip, my question is what ip do I put in? I have a 10.xx.xxx.xx and a 65.xxx.xx.xx, also what do I put in for the Gateway and DNS, I am assuming I point to there DNS.

OK... these little piecemeal replies are starting to frustrate me- no offense...... just I feel like I'm being spoonfed info. Let's get some basics down here:

What type of connection?

If it's a fixed IP, did your ISP give you a gateway IP?

Is there any other equipt between the internet interface, and the linksys? In other words, did they provide you with any routers?

What model Linksys, what revision, what firmware.

What is your internal addressing? 10.what.what.what??? What is your SNM?

What are your servers internal IP's?

Yoo-hoo.... scj6771 ... you still there??

Hope I didn't piss you off... didn't mean to.


We WILL get to the bottom of this- I just need all the info