We have this weird occurance we have been trying to figure out recently.
Every few days, we will have a record from DNS reverse zone (which is AD
Integrated) disappear.The record that disappears is a Domain Controller.
The forward record stays. Only the Reverse will disappear.

Scenario:
Thousands Windows XP in a AD Domain.
There are some Windows XP of another domain that need to receive DHCP
address form local server and keep the DNS static addresses which

I could do with some help regarding DNS!
We have 12 offices each on their own domain (192.168.1.0,192.168.2.0, etc)
These offices are connected via vpn links. There is a server at each office
that is responsible for DNS & DHCP, and are DC's among other things. The

I need assistance in best practice to setup our DNS Structure.  We have a
only  one windows 2000 native domain and have windows 2000 and windows 2003
domain controllers.
We are running one domain but have 4 sites which are UK, Ireland, Belgium

i try to make my own DNS "server". i'm working on a local network (not
connected to the internet) kind of intranet.
i have one computer that runs mfc application that uses the function
getipbyname (windows os function) and shows the ip from a given name.

I have a domain name and a static IP. Right now, I simply forward the
domain's requests to the IP.
However, this means that the address bar shows the IP AND NOT the
domain name.

Can anyone clue me in on how to replace the cache.dns file on a non-AD W2K
server? I followed the steps in KB 298148 (at the bottom--there was no TLD
defined), but I can't finish the last step since there is no AD on this
server. I can replace the cache.dns file with what is in ...

We have a small problem. Our primary DC and DNS server went down
along with the secondary DNS server. Now, when I go into the DNS Snap
In tool and try to add it (have complete connectivity), it failes and
cannot find the DNS server. Even though nslookups produce the right

We're getting the following errors on our test domain when running
dcidag:
   [WARNING] Failed to query SPN registration on DC
'pdc1.test.local'.

Is there any reason why you would not want to AD integrate a DNS zone that is
not associated with an Active Directory domain. I know it can be done, are
there any issues associated with doing it or reasons why you might not want
to do this?

I have a firewall logger program that show me traffic coming in and
out of our network.  It currently shows high / evenly distributed
levels of traffic dns traffic originating from my Windows 2003 AD /
active directory DNS server.  I would like to know which of my clients

it began when workstations were unable to make automatic update , i check and
i found that IE or firefox makes dns error on access to update.microsoft.com
and support.microsft.com, i made an nslookup test on update and support , all
is ok both are resolved with their cname and ip ...

below is a log entry from our DNS Scavenging, what is the difference
between a node and a record?
Rick.
Event Type:    Information

I have been trying to stop event ID 5504 from coming up. I have cleared the
cache, installed a hotfix, tried stopping the IP address at the firewall, and
a few other things. They just keep coming. Anything else I can do to get them
to stop?