i'll decrease TTL time of some DNS records on Server 2003 DNS server but for
CNAME records, i'm confused. Two TTLs: one for CNAME record, one for A record
corresponding CNAME record. Which TTL time clients or other dns servers
cache???

I have been trying to clean up my DNS zones.  I have one zone that has a
169.254.157.45 IP address.  I know it's an automatically configured IP
address.  It is coming from one of my DNS servers as the record appears as
(same as parent folder) Host (A) 169.254.157.45

I have one Exchange 2003 server hosting 2 email domains. I can receive email
from any domain to both domains hosted be the one Exchange server. (That I
have tested) The problem comes on the sending end.
I have about 1200 mailboxes in domain_a.com and about 30 in domain_B.com.

I've got a website that is available both internally and externally.  In
order to be able to make it available to users internally, I created a new
zone in DNS.
This website contains a link, where users can request registration keys that

Under my forward lookup zone I have an A record entry that states
(same as parent folder) Host (A) 169.254.172.169
It is under my DCs which are also my DNS servers.  It doesn't look like it
belongs there.  Should I delete it or that is a normal entry?

I have a DNS issue that has been sticking around for awhile that I
can't figure out. It is a recurring invalid secondary entry in my
domain's forward lookup zone for a member server that I can't manage
to keep deleted. It is causing havoc as PCs seem to be hanging when

How do I configure DNS so that I type http://name on my browser instead of
http://www.name.com:8008 or http://pcname.domain.com:8008.
Thank you,

I'm looking over a 2003 server that was set up be someone else and found that
the forward lookup zones are not configured the way I'm used to. I'm used to
seeing a subdomain get confugured within the parent domain.  So,
east.contoso.com would be created and configured within the ...

My company hosting our own DNS server which resolving all internet websites
for internal users. Lately some users feedback to me that they cannot access
some of the websites. I performed a nslookup on those "problem" websites and
it fails. I tried to access at home and it works fine ...

Well windows NT had a customizable ADM-Template, and windows 2000
didn't support that, so does anyone have a WMI or equiv script to
change IP settings on machines that have statically assigned IP
addresses.  Or did AD 2003 build in a GPO or tool? Just planning ahead

We have  AD setup on private domain city.local, with several
subdomains like dda.city.local, h2o.city.local, ddr.city.local and the
business domain is city.gov.
The hosts are usually configured with a domain search list like

Hi, i get this weird error when running netdiag on my server.
Why is it trying to register on DNS server '0.0.0.0' ?
thanks for help in advance:
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we have AD integrated DNS zone with dynamic secure update and DHCP is set up
to do following:
1) Always update A and PTR
2) delete entry from DNS when lease expire

If a new computer was made an additional DC by running the roles wizard for
Additional DC, can DNS server be installed after it becomes an additional
DC? If so, what are the steps? (DNS is AD Integrated)
Many, many thanks in advance.

I manually add PTRs for the printers on the LAN and scavenging is set to 7
days.  After 7 days all of the PTRs for the printers that I added are gone...
Why?  Do printers not now how to update their records?