I am trying to understand the correlation between the IPCONFIG/DISPLAYDNS and
the DNS IP addresses within my domain.  What is the difference?
When I run the noted command it shows an external IP address (127.0.0.1).  
That was not what I was expecting to see.  Is that correct or am ...

I have a question concerning DNS forwarding between 2 Domains.
Our company runs 2 Forest/Domains on the same subnet (Insane i know). We
have 1 DHCP server pushing addressing out to clients on both domains. They
recieve the same DNS, Gateway configuration. The DNS address given is ...

I have a couple of DNS Questions but first i want to give a little
background.  I currently have three domain conrolers at three different sites
each of these servers is also a DNS server.  The two remote sites are
connected via T1 to the main site.

I'm in the process of setting up DNS scavenging and I'm having some trouble.  
In a test lab I have a Windows 2003 Standard R2 server with Active Directory
integrated forward and reverse zones.  At the server level I configured
scavenging, and when I applied it, I specified for it ...

Im trying to find whats enabling my workstations to ping by name. I have
forest/domains on the same subnet and im trying to track where the name
resolution is coming from. Domain1 has DNS on 2 servers(Win2003), Domain2
has DNS on the primary DC(Win200). I found Domain2 also had ...

1.We have 4 DNS servers on the network all DNS integrated.
I've recently enabled Aging and Scavenging on all the servers,
zones and most of the records. However some of the records
I left unchecked because they are A records for servers and

I am in the process of cleaning up my DNS entries from when I decommissioned
one of my DC.  I went through all the necessary steps; FSMO roles, catalog, &
dcpromo.  I still see the old server entry in my DNS forward/reverse loolup.
Can I delete the old server IP address?

First, I have a head cold so before I go and blow up something with bad
thoughts I am posting the question here.
We have an external DNS server running server 2003.  That is all it has on
it.  When I log into this server, and try to view the web it doesn't work.  

Despite my limited networking experience, I am standing in as network
administrator for a small restaurant business.  The restaurant is
configured with three touchscreen terminals, each running windows 2000
professional.  These terminals are used for inputing restaurant

We perform a DNS zone transfer with our parent company.  They use BIND for
their internal DNS and we are running Windows DNS.  They recently upgraded
from BIND 8x to BIND 9.2.4.  Since then, we can no longer receive zone
transfers for their domain.

I am learning mcse and at this moment I am busy with DNS. I have a question
about that.
1: When you disable recursion at the Forwarders tab, the dns server looks at
his cache and asks the forwarders. He won't look at the root hints.

We have two DCs on a domain.  GC on both.  Each DC's NIC properties has
its own IP as the only DNS server and a forwarder entry to our ISP's
name servers for non-internal resources.
However when rebooting they seem to hang for minutes at 'Preparing

I have been asked tasked a job to get printers to Dynamically register
themselves in DNS, however the printers are not part of our Windows Domain.
As far as I'm aware, if the printers are not part of the domain then they
would not be able to register?  Is this correct?

I have two location that are getting the following error when they go to
http:\\www.msn.com or other sites.The page cannot be displayed    The page you
are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing
technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your ...

I need know best practice how to deploy Printers via DHCP and reservation on
MAC address and to update and keep DNS records. How to properly check box on
DNS tab of DHCP reservation. I'm not sure if all printservers are sending
request to DHCP server and asking him for update of ...