Greetings to all.
Windows server 2003
configured as dns ,IIS, email server
When i command ping and nslookup....i get replied.Also i can browsed. See, im

Roughly three weeks ago we have had printers in our environment
configured with hostnames set to DHCP dropping out of DNS.  We can
still ping the printers as the IP address still resides in WINS, but
they no longer reside in DNS at all.  If we power cycle the printer/jet

I'm experiencing the issue mentioned in this Knowledgebase article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920162/en-us
How do i get the hotfix?  I don't see any instructions or links in the
article.

What is going on with this?
I can ping a computer name on the network and PING resolves the name to an
IP address, but there is no reply from the IP address.
What setting/configuration do I need to modify to fix this. It has affected

I have a very small network (2 DCs, 1 of which is the GC), switched (no
VLANs) and approx. 850 PC's.
DNS appears to be setup correctly, however, some PC's can ping the name of
the server and get a response, while a few others cannot ping the name of the

Please help, i have a multihomed Standard Server 2003, i replaced the
internal nic for a Dlink 1Gb nic (was on local area connection 1) now on 3.
The Server can access the internet but the workstations can't. To
troubleshoot this so far i have turned TCP/IP filtering on the ...

I'm working on machines that will be setup on 2 different subnets, a public
subnet and an internal subnet.
The internal subnet will be accessed by our agency employees, the external,
by employees from other agencies.

i have 2 public DNS servers with win 2003. I've created new zones in my
server A but new zones are not created in my server B.
If i create the zone in both servers, hosts are replicated.
How can i do it for replicate zones and hosts between both servers?

I am having problems with replications of my 4 DC's. I keep getting a
"Replication failure error: reason is RPC server is unavailable."  Can anyone
tell me what is the RPC server, and how can I resolve this issue.
Thank you very muchl.

We are about to change our Domain server which also supplies the DNS
for the domain. We are a small business so the one server is all we
shall have.
The old server is "Server1" all workstaions have drives mapped to the

If I ping SERVER then it resolves to an IP address and gets a response very
quickly. If I ping SERVER.DOMAIN then it takes about 25 seconds before it
responds.
I know that an FQDN normally goes directly to DNS, while a Netbios name will

We have a dedicated server. dnsstuff.com report is perfect except for "Open
DNS Server" warning. I've been advised that it will likely do no damage.
However, it's also been advised that I could lose the message by purchasing
DNS hosting software to replace Windows 2003 DNS Server ...

Hi everyone..i'm newbie for server support.
i want to know..my company has one DNS and AD which say abc.abc.com.
and now i need to build up new AD  FOR exchange server with abc.com.
so i want to can i use exisitng DNS server abc.abc.com for new exchange

We're moving our web server from our SBS lan and now am a bit confused.
It's a complete reinstall of WS03 Std. We'll have multiple sites so we
need to run hostheaders. Since this machine is outsite our SBS lan,
it'll need to be running it's own DNS. It's a stand-alone server and

I've already got 2 DNS servers set up in a single domain environment,
but would like to set up a 3rd and then take it offline for backup
purposes.  The wizard only mentions setting up a secondary DNS server,
not an "additional" DNS server as such.  Will this affect my network in