Proxy, DNS and Active Directory

[roesljas]

Hello,
I am having wingate trouble.
This is with the www proxy server.
The wingate PC has two NICs one for the ADSL modem and one for the internal network, out network.
Any way,
the cards don't talk to each other, cause one IP address is 10.0.0.1 and the other is 203.62.29.5. the 10.0.0.1 card is on the adsl modem.
Now, i have the www proxy server bound to the internal network card, going out to the internet network, not the ADSL modem or ADSL network card.
With the internal network card, i have specified a Default DNS Server on the Local area connection properties. The dns server IP is 203.62.29.1.
Now, with this setup, the www proxy does not work.
Users get
This Page Cannot Be Found on IE
If i remove the default DNS server from the LAN properties of the internet card, which the proxy server is bound to, it will work. But this means that other apps that use DNS don't work.
This wingate server is on a domain. With a Windows 2000 server domain controller, and the wingate pc is 2k server aswell.
Mainly, it is exchange that willl only work with DNS specified.
I got help on this before but it didn't work, or i didn't do it right.

I need he;p Qbik quick.

thanks

[erwin]

Hi there

Seems like there are a couple of configuration issues here

You say that you are on a Windows 2000 domain (so I guess Active Directory) and that WinGate has two NICs one attached to the LAN and one attached to the DSL router.

Can I suggest that you have a read of our knowledgebase articles on setting up WinGate behind a dsl router, and setting up WinGate in an Active Directory you can find these here:

http://support.qbik.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase

They help to explain how to configure your WinGate with your particular scenarios.
This may point you in the right direction. After this if you are still having issues then let us know and we see if we can help you further.

Regards
Erwin

[roesljas]

OK,
i have seen this knowledgebase artical before, that is the active directory one. It works fine with the DSL router. No worries.
Basically the problem starts at wingate, through the internal NIC to my network,
But about this artical on AD, it says to add the wingate servers IP address to the wingate server to the properties of FOrward Lookup Zone, but there are no properties for forward lookup zone, but for the items inside forward lookup zone there are properties I cannot find DDNS either, just DNS.
This is what the MMC snapin looks like.
+++++++++++++++++++++++
DNS
-> BONYTHON1 (name of our DNS server, there are properties for this)
->Forward lookup zones (There are no properties for this)
-> . (There are properties for this)
-> paraboller.net.au (There are properties for this)
->Reverse lookup zones (There are no properties for this, it is empty)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Basically, i cannot change the forward lookup zone bit, but i can for the items is has in it, which are 'paraboller.net.au" and ".".
I tried ading the full name and ip of the wingate server under the "." and "paraboller.net.au" Name Servers tab of those 2 items properties. It works for a while but then i get the customary page.
This page cannot be found.
This is an IE error page, but it isn't IE.
Also,
the properties page for BONYTHON1, i was told by some on before to add the IP address of the WinGate server under Forwarder tab of the BONYTHON1 properties page.
I cannot do this because everything on the Forwarder tab is disabled, the buttons and the text fields.

Thank you,
and if you can make sense of all the above that would be good cause it took for ever to write it.

[erwin]

Hi there

Yes it can be a tricky situation when the DNS server has set itself as what is known as the Root Server. To enable the Forward lookup zone ability (Forwarders tab)
(this is found at the bottom of MS Knowledgebase Article Q300386)

Open the DNS mmc.
Expand the DNS server.(BONYTHON1)
Expand Forward Lookup Zones folder.
Click the zone that is marked with a period (.), and then press the DELETE key.
Click OK.

Once you have done this if you right click on the DNS server(BONYTHON1) and select properties you will see that the Forwarders tab has become available. This is where you need to enter the internal IP address of the WinGate machine. (not in the Forward lookup zone folder as you mentioned you had tried).

Hope this helps

Regards
Erwin