FW: [WBEL-users] Hello, and possible LAN/NIC issue?

[Bill Davidsen]

Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> Remember me with eGroupware / slow Web page serving!?
>  
> One of my suspicions, backed up by a few posts, is a DNS issue and I 
> think this is now even more likely - I've opened the site to the outside 
> world and from home via broadband everything appears very fast - as 
> expected no less!
>  
> It occurs to me that in-house name resolution is performed by a 
> pain-in-the-a** Windows 2000 box running ISA server which needs to be 
> there to keep the suppliers of a bespoke app happy (ie: if we remove ISA 
> server from the equation we lose support on the app running on the 
> server even though the supplier's reasons for justifying the ISA server 
> running in the first place are a bit lame - I think it was just part of 
> the default install for the server and they're too lazy to turn it off!).
>  
> I've actually had so much hassle with the ISA server that I've moved the 
> Linux system and my desktop PC to the 'North' of the ISA server firewall 
> as we still have a firewall in the broadband router, and it's a NAT 
> router anyway. I also couldn't see the point of having all incoming 
> traffic for the Linux box passing through the Win2K server too.
>  
> Anyway, I digress...
>  
> My question of the moment is regarding the ISA server's DNS service - 
> any tips on making it more friendly to clients - I seem to recall that 
> there can be issues if the client requesting a lookup is not actually a 
> Windows desktop system authenticated to the server and/or its domain.
>  
> I'll have a read up via Google but any short cuts to a solution would be 
> appreciated.

So why can't you run another bind on WBEL and use that, and just leave 
the old one running and used only where requiored by support issues?

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    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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