I have a Windows NT 4 server with 2 NICS. NIC1 connects to my internal network that included 3 workstations. The NIC2 connects to a DSL model/router/firewall. I am using Routing and Remote Access on the NT 4 server along with Sygate Internet sharing software to allow the users on the internal network to use the DWL modem to access the Internet, browse the web etc. Although this server/network setup is antiquated, it has worked well for awhile - up until the server was inadvertantly unplugged by some.
Ever since that unexpected reboot, users are unable to get to certain websites that they used to be able to (ex: they can go to webmail.aol.com but when they login, their connection times out, they can go to www.hotmail.com, but after logging in, their connection times out with a DNS error). None of the workstations on the network can access certain sites (such as aol e-mail, hotmail, etc) but all of these sites are accessible when browsing from the server. All Internet activity is not blocked thouugh, most other sites are accessible. I have checked my firewall/router and verified that I am not blocking ports/etc and have also looked at my routing tables/etc. Could the unexpected server shutdown corrupted something - if so I wonder what is preventing me from only accessing certain sites
Does anyone know what my problem could be
Thanks in advance for your help
Dav
This is similar to a setup I am using. I will, for the moment, assume that
both NIC1 and NIC2 are on static addresses and NOT using DHCP. Going to the
properties of the Network Neighborhood, look at the TCP/IP parameters. NIC1
should have a static address (i.e. 192.168.x.x for a class C internal
network) and a network mask. It should NOT have a default gateway. NIC2
should have a static address in the range of the router/firewall to which it
connects (and different than the range for NIC1), should have a network
mask, and should the router/firewall IP address as the default gateway.
Then click on the DNS tab. You should have 2 or 3 DNS servers entered. In
most cases, one of them can be the router/firewall's IP address. Otherwise,
get the DNS server IP addresses from your ISP.
This should then work.
I had a problem almost identical to yours when I took my NIC2 and tried to
run it on DHCP from the router/firewall. When it came time to renew the
DHCP lease, sometimes DNS would no longer work and conductivity was lost.
Mike in Ohio
> I have a Windows NT 4 server with 2 NICS. NIC1 connects to my internal network that included 3 workstations. The NIC2 connects to a DSL
model/router/firewall. I am using Routing and Remote Access on the NT 4
server along with Sygate Internet sharing software to allow the users on the
internal network to use the DWL modem to access the Internet, browse the web
etc. Although this server/network setup is antiquated, it has worked well
for awhile - up until the server was inadvertantly unplugged by some.
> Ever since that unexpected reboot, users are unable to get to certain websites that they used to be able to (ex: they can go to webmail.aol.com
but when they login, their connection times out, they can go to
www.hotmail.com, but after logging in, their connection times out with a DNS
error). None of the workstations on the network can access certain sites
(such as aol e-mail, hotmail, etc) but all of these sites are accessible
when browsing from the server. All Internet activity is not blocked
thouugh, most other sites are accessible. I have checked my firewall/router
and verified that I am not blocking ports/etc and have also looked at my
routing tables/etc. Could the unexpected server shutdown corrupted
something - if so I wonder what is preventing me from only accessing certain
sites?
> Does anyone know what my problem could be?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> Dave
Dave - 22 Apr 2004 13:06 GMT
Thank you I will give this a try and let you know how it goes
That - 27 Apr 2004 03:06 GMT
Ironically my gateway and DNS entries were setup correctly but I still cant access certain sites - strangely enough, I cant access e-mail sites (ex: if you login to hotmail, yahoo or aol, the pages that would normally display your list of e-mail messages (inbox) times out.