Connecting server to internet

[clean14]

i would like to know how to connect my server to the internet via a router when dhcp and dns are enabled on the server and both services are disabled on the router. it seems that if i have dhcp enabled on the server even though the server itself has a static ip, it does not allow me to connect to anything outside of the domains local network that i have created. any help is appreciated. thanks

 

[GhislainG]

Did you add forwarders to your DNS, e.g., your ISP's DNS? If not, it can't resolve non-local domain names.

 

[clean14]

no i did not. i will do that. thanks

 

[GhislainG]

If your server is your DNS, then it receives all requests. If it doesn't know about a domain, e.g., microsoft.com, then it needs to forward the request to another DNS that holds that info or knows how to get it from a root DNS.