I renamed computer "X" to computer "Y". However, the system still
"thinks" that computer "X" exists. If I ping X it responds with an IP.
If I ping Y it responds to the same IP. I deleted X from AD computers.
I also deleted its DNS record. Now the pinging issue s corrected.

Windows Server 2003 SP2
I have a DHCP reservation for my Intranet that resolves in DNS.  I created a
new DHCP reservation for another project.  The reservation name shows up in
DHCP, but not in the forward and reverse lookup zones.  The DHCP reservation

what is the best practices(microsoft recommendation) for for the cost number
on the mx record in windows 2003 dns. I f i have 3 mx records and i want to
put them in the order of importants to use first do i increase the number by
1, 10 etc. This is the mail server priority number ...

I have a Windows 2003 R2 x64 machine configured with AD, DNS and DHCP.
Everything works smoothly with Windows XP/Vista clients but I cannot get
other non-microsoft clients (Linux, FreeBSD and a couple of other devices
like IP cameras and net-printer adapters) to automatically ...

If I have a DC with DNS installed as primary DNS server (not AD Integrated),
and another server as secondary DNS with secondary dns zone (server also not
AD Integrated) and the secondary DNS server goes down, client machines should
still be able to log into the domain, and you ...

We have a stubzone for zone abc.com
One of the entries on the peoples DNS is for www for that zone.
Over the passed few weeks we have been getting calls from our monitoring
guys informing us that the website is unavailable

Quite commonly i see this error message, usually twice a day, it does
not affect functionality but errors are errors.
Any ideas on a fix for this.... Thanks in advance.
ps. Its says this error should be ignored as there are no peers,

I have a domain controller IP 192.168.1.2
I now try to set up an exchange server on another server 192.168.1.3
For some reason, the exchange server could not see my domain controller.
"dcdiag.exe" gave the report below which I suspect is due to DNS

Dear Sirs,
I have 4 DNS servers running in my domain, and all of them are not able to
remove the old DNS record before another machine register another machine
name with the same IP address.  Do you know why?  Thanks for your help

Two W2003SP2 DCs, DC1 and DC2 having just renamed their domain from
mydomain to mydomain.lan (single label to dotted name).  Everything went
well, no error messages.  Clients logs on to the new domain name flawlessly.
However, there is a DNS problem.  DC1 takes minutes to start, ...

I've been having problems with the URL's shop.thehungersite.com,
shop.thebreastcancersite.com, and shop.therainforestsite.com over the
past week.
Sometimes the sites load fine, and other times I get "server not

I have a Windows Server 2003 running as a DC, and has DNS installed, being
used as Primary DNS server, non active directory integrated.  I was looking
at moving to active directory integrated, but the option to do so is grayed
out.  Am I missing something?  i am looking at ...

I have a situation where my AD structure is totally flat but we're actually
on two subnets.  There's no separate site for the subnet 172.15.x.x and so
there's a situation where our Exchange server (on the 172.16.x.x) subnet
authenticates to the DC on the remote subnet - across a ...

I've got a strange one here that I'm pulling my hair out on. I have a Windows
Server 2003 box that's taking a very long time to get responses from root
servers on. If I use my ISPs (business class RR) DNS servers as forwarders I
have immediate answers to my queries, but when ...

We installed Windows 2003 Server a few months ago and we're
experiencing issues with it.
Recently we keep on having to reboot the server in order to log in
from the 20 XP workstations connected to it.