UG.. its not a good morning.
Im running 2 Active Domain server Win2k with DNS on both, one is a
PDC, other is a secondary.
For some reason the PDC crashed and i had to hard reboot it. When it

I am trying to change the SOA record for one of my AD integrated zones, and
it is automatically reverting back to the FQDN of the host.  Does anyone know
of a way to force the SOA change to stick?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Is it normal that when I configure both my forward and reverse zone to
only allow secure updates and my DHCP server to allow dynamic dns
updates that when a client that is not in the domain gets an IP address
from the DHCP server the forward zone is not updates (as to be

Hey,
Thanks in advance for any help BTW.
I set up a new machine for a 5 person office - I haven't set up a server in
5 years but I am not an idiot. I installed SBS Server 2003. We only want to

I have a question on the dns, if i have a domain A and B when I ping domain
A it will go to domain B, these can be done by using forwader on the dns, but
now my question is, if we dont use any forwarder can we complete these
task?will like to output the result when we do nslookup ...

Any insight here would be much appreciated.
Here's the set up...SBS2000 set up as domain controller, no DNS server
or DHCP server in domain (at all!). Basically there are win xp home
pc's using it as a file server each configured with static IP's and

i have windows 2003 sp1 dns and when using checkpoint smartdefense i get a
lot of domain-udp out-of-state reply.
what could be the problem

In my company, I installed Active Directory, DHCP and DNS. Clients are not
member of domain. They get IP, gateway and Name Server from DHCP server.
The problem: Those computers which take the IP from DHCP loose the name
server IP address after a few minutes. There is no problem ...

i have to add a new dns server that is acting as secondary , how coul i
transfer all zones info to the secondary without alot of work ?

I am currently replacing a Windows 2000 server with a Windows 2003 server...
The Windows 2000 server has it's DNS configured to replicate 2 secondary
zones from a private network that it is connected to via a permanant wan.
On the windows 2000 server, this was no problem - you ...

example is the only way I think I can get this question out clearly:
(THESE) = a forwarder, conditional forwarder, stub zone, or delegation
when dnsServerA receives a query from clientA and it must use any of (THESE)
to resolve the query it is dnsServerA itself that talks to the ...

I'm experiencing a weird issue here and am wondering if it has to do
with my ISP's dns.
A friend of mine has a business and when he sends me email, I don't
receive it, and yet when he sends to someone else with an SBC account,

i've setup a new server that should be working as secondary for 2 other
servers.... so it's very terrible to write eache zone my self to be add to
as secondary forward or reverse zone from the original ones.
so i need to know where to find a script that list all the zones ...

 I am trying to setup a Windows 2000 server as a dns while it's
forwarder pointing outside to my isp. Now the Domain name is like NT4
style (mycorp, instead of FQDN like mycorp.com ). When I am adding the
forwarders, I found that the dns setup program won't let me do it

I have just recently changed the IP address of the server and created a new
scope in DHCP using the change IP wizard.  The process went without error.
My problem now is my client computers cannot locate the server (DC, DNS, DHCP)
by name.  I can ping by the new IP but not by the ...