I have posted this in a number of news groups as I'm pretty sure it's a
DNS issue, but may be permissions or some other problem, so I am sorry
if you've seen this elsewhere.
I have been trying for a couple of days now and cannot seem to get my

I have a Windows Server 2003 web server that has two network cards, two
IP addresses and they share the load of the same site.  The DNS server
(out of my control, elsewhere in my organization) returns both IP
addresses when you look up my server's name.

I searched all over the web and couldn't find anything. Basically what
happened is last night, our DNS server died for some reason and we had
to create a temporary one. When i opened DNS this morning to start
working on it, i got a popup with something similiar to this (after i

My DC is running W2K server and I'm getting a new Hardware to
upgrades my DC to run 2003 server.  My W2K server also runs DNS, WINS
and AD on the same box.
There is a problem I am having.  First I join the 2003 Server to the

I have a couple of basic questions about "Reverse DNS":
1. How does Reverse DNS deal with multiple hostnames per IP address?
Every example I've seen of Reverse DNS shows only one hostname per IP
address. Isn't it common, however, to have multiple hostnames per IP

We recently configured our two Windows 2003 DCs/DNS Servers per
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323380 and have run into a strange
problem. Our servers are now configured to handle DNS requests for
anything in [our domain].org.uk and forward DNS requests for other

I checked with the two computer's event log. I found that there has dnsapi
error.
How to fix it, I do not have any idea,
Remarks

I'm attempting fo setup a new network with a new domain server.
When running netdiag I come up with the following error:
DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed
         [WARNING] Cannot find a primary authoritative DNS server for the

We have two W2003 AD/DNS server replicating. From our client XP machines I
can go to support.microsoft.com but not WWW.microsoft.com. I can go to
WWW.gsionline.com but not LOGON.gsionline.com. We use forwarding so all
internal machines are pointing to our internal DNS server. We ...

I'm hoping someone knows of a tool or a way I can merge multiple reverse
lookup zones.
Basically my problem is that my company has a forest consisting of 3
domains, let's say company.com, a.company.com, b.company.com.

We have serval Domain Controller in the domain.
each domain controller setup to be a dns server. but now, we have a
client want to join domain but it say error. the error log said it find
a wrong record mapping in DNS.

Probably not a DNS problem but anyway.
I can ping all local addresses but no external ones on the Win2k03 server.  
I can ping external ones from the other machines.  I can browse from the
Win2k03 server with no problems.  The Win2k03 server is a DC with AD.

I'd like to make a www record to point to the following URL.
http://computer:81/software/login.aspx
I'd like to be able to tell my users to just go to www.software.mycompany.net. Can I do this through regular DNS?

Anyone have the correct answer?
I have been told with Active Directory and a DNS server you don't need to
have a WINS Server
Then I have been told a WINS Server with Active Directory will speed up

Has any one ever seen this.
Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    DNS
Event Category:    None