DHCP & DNS

[NoddY]

If it's 2000 or 2003 it will query DNS for the DC to login to.
Either way your DHCP scope is pointing at the router as DNS.
. . . or is that too obvious?...

Perhaps "006 - DNS Servers - 192.168.1.10 - 81.x.x.x 81.x.x.x" is untidy?

Remove the 81.* DNS servers. Clients will then direct all name queries to the DNS Server at 192.168.1.10. It will then answer all queries directly for clients for the domain it is authoritative for (i.e. Blah.local).

If it doesn't know about a domain it can (in order of best practise):

[1]
resolve it via 192.168.1.5 (which is, I assume, another caching DNS server built into the router - it will usually have DNS data from the ISP's DHCP).

[2]
resolve it via the ISP DNS servers - you need to tell 192.168.1.10 what they are.

[3]
resolve directly using the root servers.

[NoddY]

Another thing to add - especially about the 'slowness' of logon: it's most likely to be problems with reverse DNS (IP to name mapping). Make sure in-addr.arpa is correctly configured.

Try nslookup too, clients should display 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.10 itself should display 127.0.0.1.

"arp -a" is useful too!

[wc2]

Thanks guys,

It's all sorted.

Rokie mistakes - I've done this about 50 times before

I'd not set the scope - duh

When I setup the server I'd taken for granted that the router's address was 192.168.1.1 - It was infact 192.168.1.5 - When I changed it onsite I'd missed changing one setting.

[NoddY]

Thanks guys,

It's all sorted.

Rokie mistakes - I've done this about 50 times before

I'd not set the scope - duh

When I setup the server I'd taken for granted that the router's address was 192.168.1.1 - It was infact 192.168.1.5 - When I changed it onsite I'd missed changing one setting.

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