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  • Monday, November 30, 2009 5:05 PMBromcsan Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi,
    I have 2008 R2 installed on a public facing IP.  Nothing else is installed nor is the server part of a domain (it's still just in a workgroup).  Pinging works great and if I set the server to an external dns server, that works great too.  Installing DNS on the server is where I'm running into problems.  I point the server to itself as a DNS client and it'll resolve any DNS entries that I put into the server but will not forward DNS queries to root hint servers or a DNS forwarder if I enter one.

    There is no "." zone making the server think it itself is a root server.

    I tried disabling the firewall and even setting the NIC to private, anything I could think of that might be stopping this.

    I have a feeling there is an easy solution to this I'm just not seeing it.  Any help woudl be appreciated, thanks.

    -Bromcsan
     

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