Hello walty,
You must have a DNS server in your domain, AD is based on running DNS. Only
an external DNS server is not sufficient. Also make sure that the external
DNS server is NOT on the DC's NIC. You have to configure the FORWARDERS tab
with the ISP's DNS server.s
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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[Quoted Text] > Hi,
>
> I have a single windows server 2003 as both domain controller and dns
> server, and I have changed the domain name before. I set the host
> itself as primary DNS server, and external gateway as alternate DNS
> server, in TCPIP properties.
>
> Though everything is fine (for collecting DNS record & domain user
> login), I just keep getting annoying errors in event log (NetLogon
> event 5774, return code 9017), complaining the "The dynamic
> registration of the DNS record" failed.
>
> Since I only use the DNS server for internal use, there is no need to
> perform any dynamic registration for this domain controller, so I just
> set the dynamic update of forward zone as "None" (in properties ->
> general) , and removed all entries of name server (NS).
>
> Yet, the event log now complains about "Dynamic registration or
> deregistration of one or more DNS records failed with the following
> error: No DNS servers configured for local system. ".
>
> Is there any way I could get rid of this error? and why does the DNS
> server still try to do some sort of dynamic registration?
>
> Also, I found that even if I removed the name server, after each
> refresh of DNS server, the name server records just come back, and it
> used my PREVIOUS domain name for SOA and NS, is this possible to
> correct this please?
>
> Thanks.
>
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