> I use two ISP’s one during the day and one at night each has their own DNS. So far this has worked OK but the other day I decided to use DHCP in my network so I turned it on.
It generally does not matter what your ISP is for DNS most are in the same ICANN Root use the fastest DNS server you can find regardless of ISP.
you can use Dig or Netdig
http://www.mvptools.com to test DNS speed.
The preferred forwarding DNS servers I recommend is 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 they are extremely fast and even in the UK you should get good speed out of them they usually answer under 200 ms on the first query and under 100 ms if the NS records are in cache.
> On the dialer connectoids, I have tried both entering the DNS IP addresses manually and used automatic assignment.
>On my private LAN card, should I enable DNS or not?
If using DHCP you should get the DNS address DHCP is assigning for DNS without this. If you enable DNS you have to manually enter DNS addresses.
If so do I just enter my machine name or do I also enter its own IP address (as this is the gateway).
I suppose your referring to the pop up the Win9x gives you?
Yes, use your machine name
If using DHCP you should get the address defined in the scope for DNS on you machines. run ipconfig /all to verify
> Then under the DNS/Wins resolver, do I also enter the DNS addresses?
Yes, but as I said use the fastest regardless of your ISP, and make sure the DNS address you use is for a recursive DNS server, some ISP's disable recursion on the DNS server they use to host authoritative zones on.
If you use Dig or Netdig to test for the fastest DNS server look for the ra bit in the flags section:
flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 12, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
If the rd bit is not folowed by an ra bit do
not use it for DNS.
If you use nslookup use the d2 option to see the flags.
> Then under the DHCP, I can should I choose enter the server names again.
In DHCP it is best if you put in the IP of the Wingate server for DNS, unless you are using Active Directory.