Threads Replies Last Post 23 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23   Digit as Dns Entry Hi, I have installed Windows 2003 Server as my Domain Controller and as DNS Server. I want to register my dns entry as 251.com against the particular IP address. but when I add in the dns it did not resolve the Name against the Gevene name.... 1 11/7/2008 9:57:01 AM DNS, tune up Hello, I am working in a new company and I think the DNS infrastructure is messy. Since I have a very basic knowledge of Microsoft DNS, I need your help to do some cleaning : - There are 3 DNS servers. Two of them are hosted on our two DC's. Those are primary and secondary name servers. Can I just stop the third one ? Is there any settings I have to remove on the primary and secondary... 6 11/6/2008 4:00:48 AM Reverse DNS or PTR Help!!! Our ISP, Embarq will NOT create custom PTR records. We have their DSL service and recently implemented a SBS with Exchange. Our website hosting company is managing our DNS and says they created a reverse lookup for our mail server, but a NSLOOKUP shows it is not working. Doing a lookup on our ip address resolves to the hostname of our router. It was suggested to setup a SMARTHOST. ... 2 11/5/2008 10:20:13 PM Internal domain resolving to external domain not owned by us Due to a merge, we are now migrating our domain - domain.internal to the second aquired domain - domain.net. Due to certain pressure we have no choice but to migrate in that direction. The internal domain.net is the same name as an external domain - domain.net which is not owned by us. Some of the machines in both trusted domains are resolving the domain and server.domain.net to this e... 6 11/4/2008 3:38:01 PM secondary zone replication settings Hello there, I would like to set the replication interval for a secondary zone to 24 hours, I use W2K3 server. How can I do that? Thank you, T... 2 11/4/2008 6:00:11 AM cached lookups I just noticed there was a folder at the root of my dns called cached lookups. I dont recall ever seeing it before. Is this a common folder? RAzTrat ... 2 11/4/2008 4:44:01 AM NT migration Hello, I had a NT domain and I've tried to migrate it to 2003 AD. The NT domain was called "domain.com". I took out the BDC from the network, promote it to PDC and upgrade it to 2003. When I started "dcpromo" I was asked about the domain name and had to choose smth different from "domain.com" so I chose "domain.com.local". My question is regarding the MX entry: how can I add a MX e... 7 11/3/2008 4:05:03 PM Changing FSMO and DNS masters Okay so say I upgrade NT to 2003 on DC1 with AD integrated with DNS. Now I then create a second domain controller DC2, and install DNS on him also. I then transfer all FSMO roles from DC1 to DC2 and take DC1 completely offline. Will there be any affects or concerns I should have about DNS on DC2 after this? I mean was there any sort of master role stuff that the DNS on DC1 held sin... 8 11/3/2008 3:21:21 PM Standard DNS failed integrated with ad I have a site where they have 1 primary and 2 secondary DNS servers. They show signs of once being AD Integrated with the subdomains _msdcs _sites _tcp _udp DomainDnsZones ForestDnsZones I am told they tried over 1 year ago to convert to AD integrated and their entire DNS 'went down' so they went back to standard. Im researching why it would have gone down in the conversion. ... 7 11/3/2008 5:15:41 AM Any way make DFS path resolve from an external domain? We have set up DFS, so we will have the ability to move shares without users having to keep changing their paths to the shares from their workstations. This works fine for users in the local domain, but users connecting from an external domain, can only connect when they mapped directly to \\server\share. The dfs path of \\domain\dfsroot\share will not resolve externally. Is there some wa... 5 11/2/2008 11:33:00 PM DNS failover I am looking for a paper or diagram on how dns works at the transport layer. I had a situation where one site had a failed connection and a dns server that couldnt resolve names as it couldnt reach its forwarders therefore had no recursion. there was a second connection with another dns server which was able to resolve ip request. Because the 1st dns was up the clients all sent it the ... 3 11/1/2008 11:51:57 PM Duplicate in Forward Lookup Zones??? In our Forward Lookup Zones, I have the following entries... OUR-Domain - only has the SOA and two NS records our-domain.local - has the SOA, two NS and all the host records OUR-HQ - only has the SOA and two NS records I'm wondering if the "OUR-Domain" record is a leftover from when the business upgraded from a 2000 to 2003 AD domain. We log on to workstations and ... 4 10/31/2008 4:52:32 PM Websites get redirected Hello, I have a client that is having issues browsing. Randomly when browsing to websites they will get redirected to the Sedo site which appears to be a third party domain hoster. They have two dns servers on their network and the DNS forwarders are pointing to the servers at an information technology center. However, the information tech center says that they aren't experiencing any pr... 2 10/31/2008 10:22:13 AM Force clients to only logon to DCs in their site I have two sites. one in Melbourne (about 60 users) and one in Perth (about 10 users). Site Melbourne has two DCs. Site Perth has one DC. However I have discovered that some Melbourne PCs are using the DC in Perth to logon and some PCs in Perth are using the Melbourne DC to logon. Is there a way I can force PCs to only ever use DCs in their site to logon? I have done some research a... 2 10/31/2008 6:36:53 AM Fully Qualified domain name/host not resolving?? Hello all... i recently setup windows server 2008 standard. All seems to have gone ok (except network card issues, HPdl180 g5) I setup DNS server as per the normal recommended way. Now my weird issue is i cannot seem to pin/resolve the fully qualified name of any host, only the hostname its self works... IE; if i ping fred.domain.local i get cannot find host, but if i ping fred it work... 7 10/30/2008 5:38:10 PM Vista PC is unable to join to the 2003 domain using netbios name Hi, I am not sure if this is the right place to post this question, but I am giving it a try. I have a Windows 2003 domain. All XP machines are able to join to the domain using either the netbios or the FQDN name for the AD, however, Vista doesn't seem to be able join to the domain with the domain netbios name (FQDN works). I confirmed that netbios name resolution works in the Vist... 8 10/30/2008 12:05:44 AM RENDOM /end fails Sorry to dig up such an old post! However, I am receiving the same exact error and I /do/ have a zone defined for the domain that I renamed. C:\rendom>rendom /end Failed to delete rename script on the DN: CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,DC=cent ralholidays,DC=com on host WTGDC01.centralholidays.com. 00002077: SvcErr: DSID-030F0B0E, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), data 0 : Cannot comple... 1 10/29/2008 7:34:08 PM SOA recommendation for Primary server We have two DNS servers. On server 1, the SOA Primary server is set to itself in the Forward Lookup Zones. On server 2, it is set for itself. Is this correct or "best practice"? -- Thanks! ... 3 10/29/2008 5:44:42 PM Domain controller DNS config Hi, I am looking for a bit of advice please. We have 2 Windows Server 2003 domain controllers in the one AD site. Both are also acting as a DNS server. Should the primary DNS server for each DC be itself or the other DC? Thanks, Gary.... 3 10/29/2008 2:57:28 PM Printing using windows dns in a 2003 environment hello Is there a way to setup dns printing instead of using pure ip printing? What are the pros and cons for this type of setup. One of the requirements are dhcp cannot be used. thanks in advance -- la... 3 10/29/2008 2:56:15 PM Users cannot access HTTPs - [WP] The users in one of our remote site cannot logon to any https:// sites on the internet - it just times out on them but weird is they can logon to the OWA site. They have Windows 2003 DC/GC there ...if I by pass the entire network using a notebook and plug directly in the router all works fine. What could be wrong ... DNS - DNS forwarders are pointing to a DC in the HeadOffice and BE... 3 10/29/2008 12:27:44 PM dns not connecting My friend had a home network at home connected to an AT&T DSL modem. He is trying to setup a windows DNS server by doing a DC promo. After he setup as a DNS server, he was not able to connect to the internet. For the IP info, he had assigned it a static IP (192.168.1...) and put the DSL router as the DNS server but was unable to connect to the internet. He said he got the 127.0.0.1 addre... 4 10/29/2008 12:22:23 PM Question about KMS 1.1 I have been given the task to get KMS installed on our 2003SP2 DC. I downloaded the files necessary, installed and updated, however, slmgr -dlv tell me that "Product Key Not Found". Output below: C:\Documents and Settings\%usr%>cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -dlv Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved. ... 2 10/28/2008 11:51:18 PM "the DNS server has not been configured" Hello, I have three DNS servers integrated within an active directory infrastructure. When I select the secondary servers inside the DNS management console I receive an information telling me that "the DNS server has not been configured". Is this normal ? Thank you. Sorry to ask, I have very basic knowledge with DNS server. Christophe... 2 10/27/2008 11:15:41 AM Filter on DNS Record Type I am querying DNS records in a zone, but would like to filter on A records only. Is there a way I can determaine this based on the AD attribtes of a resource record? I can't seem to determaine what value holds this information. I suspect dnsrecord but I'm nor sure what part relates to the record type. Set objDNS = GetObject("LDAP://mydomain.com/DC=mytestzone.com,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=Dom... 7 10/25/2008 6:37:14 AM 23 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23