I've always had problems with MS DNS implementations. They have messed around with DNS and so it exhibits strange behaviour. I'd suggest that you get rid of the MS machines IP as a DNS server on the firewall. On your XP PCs have the firewall as the primary DNS, and the MS machine as secondary.
sai On 7/18/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have installed pfsense 1.2beta1 built on Mon Apr 30 10:47:18 EDT 2007, LAN with half a dozen XP and a few Linux machines. ADSL. Primary name server on the general setup tab is fixed to the ISP's name server, secondary name server is set to the MS business server 2003. DHCP server and DNS forwarder are used on pfsense. Client machines are set to use the pfsense firewall as name server. Frequently name lookups in browsers fail. On page reload in the browser they are always fine. The problem is more pronounced on the XP clients but also exists on the Linux clients. To check that it isn't the ISP's name server (which has a bad reputation), I configured a name server of another ISP instead. Timeouts occur as frequently. My analysis of the problem is that pfsense's DNS forwarder's timeouts are too short. How can I increase those? Thanks for any tips. Volker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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