We have internal(2000) and external dns servers(2003).
Internal dns's forward all queries to external and external dns's ask
Root servsers.
Everything is ok and all clients query any name any time.

Can a Nameserver and a Webserver reside on the same machine with the same IP
Address?

Dear Group,
I'm upgrading my 2003 AD Domain controller.  While I've researched how
to move all of the active directory FSMO roles, I'm unclear of the
best way to move the DNS SOA.  I'm currently going to create from

I'm trying to setup 2 domain in 2 differents forests with an external
trust between both domain.
These two domain are only on a switch no access to internet
Switch address 192.168.1.63

I'm looking for a tool that can scan DNS for stale entries that are specific
to AD, such as , a DC crashed and a metadata cleanup was performed, but it
wasn't removed from the reverse lookup zone only the forward.  And also to
check the stub zones (or delegated zones since we ...

I have two domains linked together by a working VPN. Both domains are
set up with trusts and work great with the exception that I am unable
to view either domain in network places. If I type in the FQDN I can
access either domain no problem. My DNS is set up correctly. What am I

having a weird issue on our LAN, We have a vlan setup with 6 machines
and every 3 days or so they drop off of the LAN only because they can
ping everything but the DNS server. If I go to the DNS server and ping
one of the machines it comes back and I'm able to Ping the DNS server.

I am planning on being the authority for my external DNS domain and
will be hosting all my and my customers DNS records myself. I plan on
deploying one external DNS server for the time being. Someone told me
that I would need at least 2 external DNS servers to allow the transfer

We have an architecture Active Directory Windows2000, with DNS integrated AD
W2000, and a Server DHCP.
When a computer obtain an address IP by the DHCP, I wanted to know which
time is necessary to register this entries (IP) in the system DNS, to

We have a Windows 2000 AD domain cityname-tn.org located at city hall.
We have a Windows 2000 AD Child domain electric.cityname-tn.org
located at the electric department.  Everything seems to work fine
except the child domain can’t find domain controllers for the parent

Have a DNS which is looking in all the wrong areas - not sure why.
I see DNS entries port 137 to 137 going to a completely different
subnet than we are using.
allow out eth1 383 udp 20 127 192.168.XXX.XX 192.168.61.1 137 137

I've inherited a win 2000 server  which is a  DNS server andin a domain, 2 XP
pro clients need access to internet,
what are the process of configuring those clients to access internet?
also,one laptop already receives internet via its wireless card, but the

When I open the MMC snap in for DNS I get an error "Cannot contact the DNS
Server".  The server was fully functional a few days ago.  If I do a nslookup
the server is still resolving names.  I have tried to delete the server and
add it back it but I get an error that says the RPC ...

I m creating a capacity sheet for our dns servers and wondered if
anyone has DNS capacity stats for Win2k or 2k3, in particular, maximum
number of zones supported.

Howdy everyone,
Current situation:
1 ms win2003 domain.  Most users are in hq that houses citrix server
utilized by users in location2..