can you ping a public ip from the server? If yes, you ping yahoo.com? if you can ping the public ip but not yahoo.com, I would check the internal DNS settings first.
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"Joseph O'Brien" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com...
Hello. Can someone offer any advice about how to fix internet
connectivity to our Small Business Server?
After doing some minor router configuration this morning, I found that
I had lost internet connectivity on all our desktops and servers.
I undid the changes I made to the router (they were very minor --
nothing that should have caused a problem), but still no internet. I
was able to ping yahoo.com from the router, so I know it's connected.
After some fiddling, I found that if I set (on the server) the
forwarding IP address for external DNS inquiries to our router/gateway
IP, I could get full connectivity on the desktops, and partial on the
servers.
It seems that the server is able to resolve external DNSs, but not
actually find them. Traceroute and ipconfig results are below.
Again, the desktops work fine. Additionally, I am able to access the
server remotely from home (email, company intranet, remote desktop,
etc.).
Thanks for your help,
Joseph
tracert yahoo.com
Tracing route to yahoo.com [216.109.112.135]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254 <<<(this is our router's
IP)
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
Here's the results of ipconfig /all
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : servername
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : ourodmain.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : ourodmain.com
Ethernet adapter Server Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit
Ethernet
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-60-D1-35-0F
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.12
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
192.168.1.12
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.12