How can I test my AD DNS to make sure it is working properly?
I am having an issue when I PING a new device I added to the domain. The
name gets resolved to and IP address, but there is no reply. The device I
just added can see everything just fine however.

If I change the hostname on a PTR record will I see the change in the
hostname record?

I've got a strange problem.  I've got 1 W2000 member server in our domain /w
static IP.  Throughout the day, workstation connections to the server will
drop for a few minutes.  During this time, reconnecting will give problems,
and pinging the server by its computer name will ...

For some reason I have duplicate IP records with different hosts appearing in
my reverse lookup zone.  It is almost like the PTR is not being updated when
a different client gets the same IP.  
The following is checked in DHCP properties on server...

As I'm still in trouble with this anomaly with dynamic updates in VPC 2004
SP1, here I come with another post on the same topic, sorry.
Resume: In a virtual PC scenario composed of only 1 dns srv and 1 client
(2 win2003 EE machines), dynamic updates work successfully only when I set ...

My DNS (win2003) is working fine and the forward lookup zone for my domain
seems up to date and quite 'tidy' but my reverse zone has records of
computers from years and years ago, is there any way to get the system to
tidy it up?

I have 2 servers. One is inthe parent domain and the other in the child. Both
are AD integrated DCs and DNS servers. When I run "dcdiag /test:dns" the
parent DC returns no errors but the child DC returns errors that the
forwarders and root hint servers are invalid. The forwarders ...

I'm a DNS newbie and need some help.  My windows domain name in
active directory is the same as our external web server domain name.
Our users who type in our domain name in Internet Explorer hoping to
view our website on a machine inside our network get a page "can not be

We have a Windows 2003 Standard edition server as a DC.  When trying to
access a asipay.webex.com, which is an external website we were getting "page
cannot be displayed."  To correct that I added a new DNS Forward Lookup Zone
called webex.com and an A record, which points to the ...

I have the following problem.
I am trying to solve the problem with DNS  on my DC controller.
When I use nslookup it seems everything is fine:
nslookup dcname.mydomain.01 - gives me proper IP

Good morning. I have three XP SP2 workstations w/ static addresses in a test
lab. My dns zone is AD-Integrated and only allows secure dynamic updates.
When I perform a "ipconfig /registerdns" on the XP workstations, I expected
the DNS record to be owned by the client. When I ...

our network is as follows
we have internal servers and dns servers, and external dns servers. the
internal servers and clients are configured to use the internal dns
servers as dns server. The internal dns servers are configured to

I'm studying on 70-291 MS Press self paced training kit book (v.1) and
practicing with MS Virtual PC.
In the last few days I've gone mad trying to get that "ipconfig
/registerdns" working between a DNS Client and a Server (each of them win

I have the following situation that I need anyone's thoughts on:
Active Directory 2003 environment.  Domain controller (master) DNS zone
gone.  Two secondary zones on other DCs are secondary's to each other
(circular/recursive), therefore neither can not be updated (they have

Running Windwos Server 2003 with active directory and inegrated DNS.
Recently I had some problems with email returning because I had no reverse
DNS entry.
I found out that I had to ask my hoster to create a records on their DNS.