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   DNS re-assigning address Thanks in advance for any assistance. Our DNS server is getting an entry overwritten about every 30 minutes. DNS appears to be grabbing a dynamic address for a static IP'd machine. What makes this more frustrating is that it's our Terminal Server that it's happening to, and only this machine. Thanks, Morgan... 2 10/17/2008 10:30:45 PM what are member domains of a Forest One group has setup an internal Forest with 2 member domains, which I'm not familiar with the concept of member domains. They have main.local forest with 1stmember.local and 2ndmember.local domains. Are these seperate Forests? When I do a nslookup -type=ns 2ndmember.local, I see that all the name servers for the 3 domains are listed. However when I query each name server the only name se... 11 10/17/2008 2:35:32 PM Cannot ping Active Directory Domain Name Hi I am trying to establish a trust from a WAN domain to a domain on a LAN. Network connectivity is established and confirmed. The problem I am experiencing is that I cannot ping the domain name from the domain on the WAN. I have configured forwarders on the WAN DNS and can ping individual servers on the LAN domain, but not the domain name itself. Eg. I can ping server1.contoso.... 4 10/17/2008 11:40:00 AM DNS Import and export utility Hi, I am looking for an import/export utility for DNS Zones and records from a from and to windows 2008 server. Is there something I can use to do this?... 2 10/17/2008 3:03:40 AM AXFR with dnscmd.exe Hi everybody! Is it possible to initiate an AXFR with dnscmd.exe? Many thanks in advance! Greetings, Jose... 3 10/16/2008 6:36:35 AM Stale records We have many 2003 Domain Controller with AD integrated DNS. The Microsoft DNS is a dynamic DNS in the sense that records are added and deleted automatically by the clients or by DHCP; our problem is that the records deleting doesn’t work very well and a counsaltant told us that it is a Microsoft’s DNS bug. We have setup the scaneging at 8 days but we have many records (hundreds) th... 5 10/16/2008 4:24:06 AM Microsoft DNS configuration Hello, I have an external DNS server that is authoritative for my customer's domains. One of my customers was told by their credit card company (or gateway or merchant, not sure which) that they needed to go through security testing as part of the new PCI security standard. A scan by a security company revealed some DNS issues. Below is the description of the problems regarding DNS: #1 Th... 4 10/15/2008 9:24:01 PM can't log in on server using workstation good day! i have a problem logging in on server (windows 2003 enterprise) using the workstation. it says (the system cannot log you on now because the ___ domain is not available) also have problem when i reset the password of a workstation in server then i try to log in on workstation with the new password there's no outcome it means password doesn't change at all. is it a dns pro... 3 10/15/2008 3:24:31 PM DNS Setup I am a software developer, not a system administrator, so please be kind. Here is what I have Pc1: Win 2008 server: Fixed IP 192.168.1.50 Pc2: WinVista: Automatic IP/DNS, Workgroup(WALNUTHARBOR) Pc3: Win XP Pro: Automatic IP/DNS, Workgroup(WALNUTHARBOR) Linksys Router 310N: Connects to Internet, Provides DHCP, DNS address 192.168.1.1 I want: PC1 (winserver 2008) to provide the D... 7 10/15/2008 12:11:01 PM Name resolution issues with VPN Scenario: I have a domain using DFS with a domain-based root, so clients access folder shares using \\domain.com\share-name. Domain.com is also registered externally (internet). When on my internal subnet my internal DNS servers resolve domain.com and all is well. But when I fire up a VPN client and get a new set of DNS servers I'm guessing they are picking up the external view of doma... 4 10/15/2008 8:33:01 AM How to control access/changes in DNS server? Hi, we are in need to prevent access to DNS servers to only three "dns administrators". The DNS servers are also domain controllers, running of Windows 2000 servers. DNS zones are active directory integrated. We need to prevent users from accessing DNS servers using DNS MMC either from dns server it self and from local workstations. Current security settings on DNS server (DNS MMC/server ... 2 10/14/2008 9:04:23 PM what order uninstall ADI DNS and demote DC Conflicting answers when googling. On a DC with AD Integrated DNS that I want to demote, do I demote DC first then uninstall DNS, or do I uninstall DNS then demote DC. All fsmo roles have been moved to among 2 other DCs, thse 2 DCs are also running AD Integrated DNS, and the server is no longer a gc or pointing to self for DNS. It's the AD Integration factor I am concerned about. I wan... 6 10/14/2008 10:37:52 AM DNS setting in child domain? Hi All, we have a forest with a domain and 2 child domains. There are 2 domain controllers per domain, and all of them host DNS, which has forward lookup zone for the forest domain, and is AD intergrated on all DNS servers, replicated in the whole forest. Now, for one of the child domains there are only 2 records (for the 2 domain controllers), but not for other machines? (for th... 2 10/14/2008 8:25:13 AM Exchange error regarding external mail delivery I had set up New Ms Excahnge 2003 server setup. I had done every setting and i am able to send and recieve internal mail. now also I am recieving mail from external mail id's like yahoo, gmail, hotmail or other my problem in this is that i am not able to send mail to external mail id means yahoo, gmail, hotmail....... and so on error report is below plz help me so that i can get rid from this pro... 3 10/13/2008 8:45:27 PM dnsexporter.exe Hello, For a internal DNS cleanup project, I am looking for the dnsexporter tool mentioned in this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/richpec/default.aspx Using google eeeh... live search offcourse I cannot seem to find anything other than links to the blog itself. Also calling MS Support (in NL) did not help much. Anyone here got a link to download, or tel no I could try? Thnx ... 1 10/13/2008 1:08:01 PM Failback to primary DNS-Server? Hello! I'd like to ask you, if there is a failback-mechanism in the DNS-client service to use the primary DNS-server again. For example, I use 10.0.0.1 as primary DNS-server and 10.0.0.2 as secondary DNS-server. 10.0.0.1 is offline when a client tries to resolve a record. Let's say, that 10.0.0.2 is able to resolve that record. Later, the 10.0.0.1 is back online, but the client (Windo... 3 10/13/2008 6:27:28 AM zone transfer stop to work Hi :) After some time I must start scream here for help :) because zone transfers stop to work. I am talking about zones transfers between DC and standalone server, all are Win Svr 2003 R2 Std. SP2. Configuration at DC: DC1 have domain_zone_at_dc which is AD integrated and is replicated ok to DC2. At zone transfer tab for domain_zone_at_dc it is allowed to transfer this zone only ... 1 10/12/2008 7:07:01 AM DDNS, DHCP and firewall issues I think I've finally tracked down and fixed the issues I've been having with my domain-member machines being able to correctly update their DNS records via DDNS. I have DHCP configured to "enable dns dynamic updates" and "always dynamically update, so that my older DHCP clients can have their records updated. Fine. But what about the current clients that are restricted by by firewall... 2 10/11/2008 5:00:27 AM nslookup and spf all; If I don't know the host name portion for the TXT record of domain foobar.com, would I be able to use nslookup or some other tool to find it? Truth is, I don't know if I actually _need_ to know if foobar.com is using SPF , I'm working on a bugger of an SMTP issue and need to find out all I can about foobar.com tia / rgds DemoDog... 5 10/11/2008 4:53:58 AM RPC Service unavailable Dear all, Strange problem to solve... I have migrated 2003 server to another server and all seem to work fine. All the logons work perfect but there's something wrong with DNS, internet on client computers don't work and also the GPO's do not reach the clients. With an internal test for GPO's they work fine but when actualy testing them on client computers I get the error: RPC service ... 13 10/11/2008 4:48:17 AM Disable appending of primary DNS suffix? Is there a way to disable the appending of the primary DNS suffix when resolving hostnames but still have the connection-specific DNS suffix appended? The problem is that someone registered a domain name that is identical to our internal AD domain name. (Yeah, I know, we should have taken more care in choosing our internal domain name, but the people that did this are long gone and w... 7 10/11/2008 4:39:55 AM DNS server troubleshooting Hello there, I have a W2K3 primary DNS server with AD integrated zones that is exchanging its AD zone and a Unix zone with a Unix Bind server every 30 minutes. Name resolution works most of the time, but every 2 weeks or so client XP and W2K machines cannot for some reason resolve some server names that are hosted on the Unix zone. It works if I try accessing by IP or if I do a ipconfig /r... 4 10/10/2008 9:32:02 PM Root domain clients cannot lookup child domain clients Root domain clients cannot lookup child domain clients but child domain clients can lookup root domain clients I have 3 dns servers in the root domain and 1 in the child The 2 zones are working fine and replicating between all servers In the root zone a delegation on the child zone exists with all dns server listed as name servers I have a forwarder from the child dns server to one o... 4 10/10/2008 1:40:45 PM DNS Setup - dcpromo doesn't see static ip I'm in the same boat as the previous poster. I'm a software developer not sysadmin and need to set up a 'corporate lan' for development and testing. I've installed Windows Server 2008 and configured the machine with a static ip as follows:- (This is for the onboard network adapter - there are no addin cards at all.) IP Address: 192.168.0.10 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway... 5 10/10/2008 12:50:06 PM migrating DNS from server 2003 to server 2008 Hi i am doing inter forest migration using ADMT 3.1 from server 2003 to server 2008 new forest. i have about 20 zones in DNS my existing domain is single lable domain thats the main reaon i have to do interforest, domain renaming will ruine my exchange envroment so i dont watnts to go that path. can some one help me provide step by step to move my DNS settings from 2003 env to 200... 4 10/9/2008 6:26:56 PM 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