RE: Windows Server 2003 web connection?

["Jonathan Hall" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pete,

Have you got DNS set up correctly? Can you ping say 212.103.224.51? If you
can ping that then traffic is going in and out. If you can't ping
www.novell.com which will return a response, Microsoft's web site won't
respond as ping flooding is a form of a denial of service attack, the it
looks like a DNS issue.

If you can ping and ip address but not a host by it's host name then you
have something set wrong with the servers DNS settings.

If you type ipconfig /all at the command prompt what has it got set for its
DNS servcer? It should look something like this.

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

If it is anything like my set up, which is Linksys then the router acts as
a
DNS proxy so you should be pointing at that for DNS resolution.

Hope that helps

Cheers
Jonathan


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
White, Peter
Sent: 15 April 2006 01:57
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Windows Server 2003 web connection?

I've finally got around to setting up my HA PC, which is one of the
el-cheapo Dell PowerEdges, with MS Server 2003 R2 (standard edition).  I've
just finished installing the O/S, but even though I can ping the router, it
won't connect out to the web. Am I being really dim?   It's a bog-standard
home network, a Linksys router/ADSL model, and the server is patched
directly into one of the router's 4 ports. I've tried DHCP and fixed IP on
the server, both work fine, but still neither will connection out to the
web, even to trusted sites such as the Windows Update site.

I'm not into servers, so maybe I'm doing something daft, any ideas?  It's
driving me mad, and that's after wasting hours yesterday trying to get  a
Slug (NSLU2) working properly.


Pete




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