Here is what we did in a lab scenario to prepare for our AD upgrade
from NT4.
We configured a Windows 2003 server as a member of the NT4 domain.  We
configured the server as a DNS server for the domain.  We then

I have a test environment setup that is on a seperate subnet than our
production environment. How would I get the two DNS servers in either subnet
to update each others DNS records? I am goning to setup a two way tranitive
trust between the two forrests and need to have name ...

I have windows 2003 server, on a new computer. I formally ran a very lightly
used website on Windows 2000 server, but since upgrading I have had a lot of
issues getting this working consistently on 2003 server.
I have the Qwest-provided 2wire modem, a static IP, dns service from

I've found what appears to be a bug(?):
Primary is a non AD integrated zone.  Zone contains a CNAME record that
points to another domain.
Secondary will not load the zone.

We have a DNS server that is also DC.
We have domain.net (standard primary type) forward zone which is working OK.
We created subdomain for DC (Active directory-integrated primary type) as a
new forward zone.

I have 3 computers running Windows XP Prof. connected to DLink Router in a
WORKGROUP.
DLink Router config:
IP Address: 192.168.0.1

I have two DNS servers - how do I know which is the primary?
Many thanks,
Mark

OK, let me see if I can get this right, I'm a newbie at DNS.....
We are using Dynamic DNS with AD integration.  We use Cisco VPN and
Client, NOT microsoft VPN.  So when a user boots their laptop,
connects to their ISP, runs the VPN client and connects to VPN they

I have recently configured a Linux server with BIND 9.3.3 to act as
the DNS for a small internal LAN running a Win2k3 Active Directory.  I
know the pros/cons of running a non-microsoft DNS already.
I verified correct configuration of BIND by running dcpromo on a test

On a Win 2003 Server, my DNS service won't start, leading the boot up being
slow, and most of my service not to start.
I just installed SP2, but it seems it doesn't fix that problem :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886695/en-us

I got the event ID 4515 and I've been reading
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/867464 a few times now.
The subdomain doesn't replicate the contoso.com zone but I'm a bit unsure
how to see what zone to delete. Looking on one of the DC's in the subdomain,

Everything worked fine for years and now I got this strange problem. We have
2 DNS servers for our domain. Both are forwarding the unresolved requests to
our internet gateway server. This server also runs a dns server but doesn't
have zones defined and only forwards everything to ...

Our Windows 2000 SP4 DNS servers return a reply code of "Server Failure (2)"
if a non fully qualified query is sent to them.  This was never an issue in
the past, since all clients had the Primary DNS suffix assigned via AD.  We
now have a 3rd party appliance that is trying to do ...

W2k3 sp1 domain.  
Can I make a cname entry for a DC without screwing up my entire DNS and
domain environment?
This involves cluster nodes that are geographically separated and the

If I took an older 800 megahertz machine and used it for my home domain
controller using windows 2003 server (or 2000 ) would it be too slow? I am a
one man operation here and I have 1 xp pro machine, 1 windows server 2003 64
bit and an xp 64 bit laptop. I am a developer and use ...