Hi,
I'm currently upgrading to NT4 from Win98 (or is that a sideways-grade?)
I'm having some problems! With Win98 I just added the names and ip's of
the four machines on my network in to the hosts file and added my ISP's
DNS addresses in to the DNS setup of TCP/IP properties. I know this is a
slap-dash way to do it but I can't quite get to grasps with running a
local DNS server. Everything worked fine I could telnet and get mail from
the linux server by specifying it's name. When I tapped in an external
address which wasn't listed in the hosts file Windows would contact my
ISP's DNS servers which would subsequently bring up the ppp connection
using dial on demand. With Windows NT4 however I've followed the same
procedure but it keeps starting the ppp connection, when it boots up, when
it logs on, when it's closing down, when I'm telnetting across the network
or getting mail. This is obviously a DNS thing. What is the correct way
to setup NT4, should I use \winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or is there
another way? Is this an NT4 problem is the reverse lookups by Linux which
is causing the problems?
Cheers for any insight.
Andy
PS I didn't ask this on a Windows NT list because I wanted a good answer
not some drivel about upgrading my server to a Dual Pentium Xeon running
IIS and Exchange.
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