DNS is taking my soul

I have been out of the Net Admin business for about 2 years but it might as well be 100. I was recently asked to help build a domain for a small business. They have 3 workstations and one server for a pdc and one pos netgear router. I built the server on the Win2k Server platform. I have all of the workstations connected to the domain, however I cannot get my server to connect to the internet. Nor can I get the workstations on the internet either. I believe there is a problem with my dns server. I have reread all of my NT books but they're just not doing the trick. Because this is a small business they use Cable Broadband for the isp, which uses a dynamic ip address. I cannot figure out why but my DNS server will not resolve off site names. I can resolve all of my workstation and my server but I get no connection. I can ping both sides of my router and I know that my cable connection is good because, at one point I shut down the DNS and DHCP services and connected my server directly to the cable modem, and got service.

I did a nslookup on my server and got this.

>server-2
Server: unknown
address: 123.45.67.89

Name: Server-2.domainname.local
address: 123.45.67.89

the server is always unknown no matter what computer name I put in but it always resolves the IP.

I attempted to set up a forwarder and got nowhere.
Now I am just lost.
Thank you for any help you can provide...

Paul

The server unknown field just means that the IP address nslookup took from your resolver list could not be resolved to a domain name. It's a minor problem.

Close all that DNS stuff. Go to your PDC. Open network connections, and modify the TCP/IP properties for your network card. Set the DNS fields to the same ones your pos Netgear router is configured with, click ok a few times, and that should give everyone internet access. If not, make sure the DHCP server is making the default gateway the netgear and not the PDC.

AlanGrah