Win 2K Name Resolution

[Trevor Porter]

I have a Small Business Server 2000, Win2K sp2. When users dial-up using RAS, an IP is assigned to their connection with DHCP (good so far). However, my internal client using the W2K firewall and, I assume, proxy software resolve the name of the Small Business Server not as 10.0.0.2 but as the IP of the dial-in connection! I'm sure this is something simple, but I can't seem to locate documentation for this. Where do I look?

Thanks,
Trevor

[Karl M]

Hi All...

I am having a perhaps related problem.

I have a peer-peer windows network with a mixture of 95, 98, one nt 4 workstation and some 2000 pro machines. On two of the 2000 pro machines, I can receive incomming pptp connections. I have no WINS or DDNS servers on the network. The network is one segment only. The first puzzle:

On both 2000 boxes, after reset, the IP address displayed from a "ping host-name" is the value I set in the local connection setup. After a pptp connection (and until another reset), the address displayed from a "ping host-name" is the addresses of the pptp connection. Why and how do I fix it? (Either address seems acceptable to use after the pptp connection.)

Second puzzle:

One 2000 machine handles pptp just fine. The other one has problems after a pptp connection (and until reset). It tries to become a master browser. (If I disable being a master borwser by editing the registry, then it tells me that browsing is inactive.) So, I think that after a pptp connection, it can not see the master browser on the network. Again...Why and how do I fix it?

Thanks,

...Karl

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Trevor Porter at 6/13/01 1:57:19 PM

I have a Small Business Server 2000, Win2K sp2. When users dial-up using RAS, an IP is assigned to their connection with DHCP (good so far). However, my internal client using the W2K firewall and, I assume, proxy software resolve the name of the Small Business Server not as 10.0.0.2 but as the IP of the dial-in connection! I'm sure this is something simple, but I can't seem to locate documentation for this. Where do I look?

Thanks,
Trevor