I am switching my email for domain-a.com to point to my exchange 2003 server
rather than my ISP.  My exchange server is already hosting email for
domain-b.com.  Is there any way I can fake an mx record using my internal dns
server so I can test sending mail to domain-a.com.  I ...

Our ISP wants us to set 2 MX records both pointing to the name and both at
priority 0.  Is that OK per RFCs
Craig

DNS client resolver bug in Windows Server 2003?
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Background:
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I just changed IP address on a domain controller running windows 2003, when
I run NSLOOKUP, I got:
server: unknown
IP: 142.xxx.xxx.xxx

We use DHCP scopes with printers given DHCP reservations, users then connect
to printers via it's domain name - e.g. printer-01 - this works well for us.
however when a printer is switched off it then loses it's DNS entry - i can
understand this as DNS will obviously check DHCP ...

I need to publish a Sharepoint-IIS-Website for both extranet and internal
users.Therefore I have two sites created in the Sharepoint server; Extranet
Site and Internal Site.
My goal is to provide a unique URL to both extranet and internal users. My

I ran some Reverse DNS Lookups for our domain and have a problem that I'm
not sure how to solve. We have a filter that receives all incoming email (so
the MX record is set to the filter's IP), but each Exchange 2000 server
sends its own outgoing email. We do have PTR records for all ...

I've migrated our DFS to domain-based DFS and a login script contain a
mapping net use z: \\fabricorp.contoso.com\globalshare and that's where we
started to face disconnection issues. DCs are all in 2003 Std. and we have a
mixture of NTSP6a, 2k and xp clients. Initially, it works ...

I have recently cleaned up (removed stale records) my DNS (Windows 2003, AD
integrated zone).
In my DNS, I am having A records, CNames, MX records etc.
I have following types of devices in my network

Any body can help me ?
I run two commands in AD, 'nslookup' can resolve my request,
but 'ping' result is not the same.
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We have a w2k server on which we changed the ip address a while ago.  Now
the users experience excess time to log on/off and when opening file
open/save dialogs.
Apparently the server's dhcp service distributes the correct dns server ip

I'm trying to set up name servers on my sbs 2003 server, i have forwarded the
website i'm using to the ip im using for the server. its connected directly
to the internet. i set up ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com on forward
zones on my server, but when i try to query the ...

Thanks in advance for your help -
I am having issues after migrating our company's DNS from Windows 2000
to Windows 2003.
For some reason, some domains resolve to the IP address with no

I am trying to add a new DC to my domain and having the following issues.
1. The wizard cannot gain access to the list of domains in the forest. The
error is:
The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

We're running a 2003 domain, with 1x 2003 server (standard edition). The
server is running AD, DNS & DHCP. The DHCP scope has the DNS option to issue
the IP of the server out to all the clients (XP pro) as the DNS server - 90%
of the time this works fine.