I've tried searching this group and others but I just can't find an
anwser, I'm hoping it's possible to do what I want to do.
Currently we have 2 Public DNS servers holding the DNS entries for
about 200 domain names. One of them is an NT box which we're trying to

We're converting from Linux master DNS servers to Windows Server 2003 (no
Active Directory in place) and I need to reset the zone serial number from
the CCYYMMDDNN format to just 1 because of the seemingly automatic
incrementing done by Windows.

is it possible to set up my DNS server (W2K) on my .local domain so that
when clients type only "sitename" in a browser (no suffixes or anything)
the server resolves it to an IP address that isn't in the .local domain?
Kind regards

Dears;
I have two dns server Dns1, Dns2. dns1 is the parent server of dns2 with
trust relationship between the two.
I can resolve dns1 short name FQDN from dns2, but I cannot resolve dns2 from

Can anyone give me some advice about moving a website from one host to
another.
The website is hosted with a company called domainsuperfactory.com, it
has been down for nearly a week now, and I seemingly have no way of

hi, I have w2k DNS server on the root domain and I delete by mistake a sub
folder inside the root forward lookup zone relaited to one of this root's
child
the forward lookup zone is AD inegrated zone.

I'm sending the SPF record to my provider's dns office, and I'd like
to have your opinion about the string I have written. At first I will
explain our dns and mailserver configuration:
1) We have 2 SMTP server that go out with the same public IP (one for

Is there a way to enter the name of "DNS suffix for this connection:"
using a script and also enable the checkbox for "Register this
connection's addresses in DNS" and "Use this connection's DNS suffix
in DNS registration"

 I have a Windows 2003 forrest with root domain and child domain.
When I create a new zone the DNSAdmins group is not automatically
assigned rights on it.  I have looked all over the net and I cant find
out where to set permissions, inheritance so that new zones will have

When i am trying to send the mail to one doamin i am getting the bouce back
meesage like  "no reverse DNS entry found for your mail-server (RFC1912)"
But i can send the mail to all other domains.Even i am telnet to port 25,
still i am getting the above error.can anyone help me ...

I have a small network consisting of a Terminal server and 2 domain
controllers, running under Windows Server 2k3 R2
The hard disks failed on the Primary domain controller PDC. (I know its not
really a primary any more) however, this was running the Primary DNS as

Dears;
I have two dns servers, Dns1 & Dns2 Dns1 is the parent of dns2. with full
trust relationship between them.
I can resolve Dns1 ( short name & FQDN) from dns 2 but The opposite is not

long ago we upgraded our only domain controller (AD, DHCP, WINS) from
NT4 to Windows 2000, but forgot to remove the domain suffix on the NIC
before we did.
That resulted in the DC under Network Identification has a name of

I have configured DNS server on domain controller, and on domain controller
direct internet connection is available. In such case I think I should be
able to configure DNS server as forwarder in case this DNS server not able
to resolve client query. But on my dns server that ...

We just migrated into a new Windows 2003 server. For work reasons we
need to connect to an outside server through a cisco VPN client. The
problem is when we are connected, we can no longer resolve DNS
queries. We can ping any IP address fine, we just cannot resolve any