DNS Server

[viperwalt]

Hey,

I followed the DNS instructions but I still cannot set up a DNS server with wingate. I'm trying to send all DNS requests through one NIC to opendns (ip: 208.67.222.222). Apparently I have to set up a udp mapping service on port 53. How would I configure it in wingate? How would I configure the network card in xp to send dns requests to the wingate server? Thanks a lot.

[logan]

I don't think using a mapping is the best idea for providing DNS to your client computers. There is a DNS Server in WinGate that will listen for DNS requests from your client computers and then ask an upstream DNS server for you already.

The DNS Server in WinGate is very straight forward and should require little to no attention to make it work. It listens for connections on port 53 from the network adaptors that it is bound to, and then it will find a suitable DNS server to forward the requests to from the network adaptors settings on the WinGate computer.

If the computer is running an Active Directory, you will need to disable the DNS Server in WinGate and let the Microsoft DNS Server handle all Internet DNS Requests for the network.

Make sure that the DNS Server in WinGate has successfully bound to the network adaptor that your client computers are connecting to. `Gatekeeper -> System tab -> DNS Server -> Bindings`.

The DNS Server cannot require authentication from client computers for DNS requests, so make sure that the DNS Server allows unauthenticated access to the guest account in it's policies, and make sure the guest account is enabled in the User Database.

If the WinGate computer is a member of a domain and there are DNS settings that point to an internal ADDNS server, you can stop WinGate from sending DNS requests to the ADDNS servers IP using the Advanced Options. `Start -> Programs -> WinGate -> Advanced Options -> DNS Servers`

You can manually specify the DNS servers that WinGate should use in WinGate. If you are having problems making WinGate send DNS requests to the correct DNS server, you may need to use this option. `Gatekeeper -> System tab -> DNS/WINS Resolver`.

[viperwalt]

Thanks! Very useful information but I want to use the mapping service because it can send all dns requests through one nic (gateway). How would that be done?

[logan]

In that case,

Make sure the DNS Server is disabled in WinGate. Since you want to do this with mappings, you don't want the DNS Server picking up any requests.

- Create a TCP Mapping and a UDP Mapping, both on port 53.
- Enable the default mappings for these mappings and point them to your external DNS server on port 53.
- Set the gateway that you want to use in the gateways section of the mappings.
- Make sure the guest account is allowed to access these services.

That should be it really. With this, I was able to perform DNS requests directly to an external DNS server.

For your client computer to use these mappings, it just needs to have it's DNS setting pointing to the WinGate servers internal IP address.