What's the correct way to configure a second network card TCP/IP settings on
a DC (Win2003)?
(Such as the DNS entries, append to DNS...)
For same and different subnets.

So I went to create a second dns server.
After adding the program to the server, right away there is a forward zone,
(containing) domain.local, AD, integrated primary, running.
However when clicking on the server name, it says DNS is not configured.

In my environment a domain contains four DCs. In PDC DNS in running.
When ever I do nslookup with my domain name it used to show all IP of my
four servers.
In DNS the record is like this – (same as parent) name and IP.

One of our customers wants to use their internal W2003 DNS server to resolve
for 2 domains but it doesn't seem to work.
Their main A.D. domain is, say, "domain.local" - pinging anything within
this domain resolves OK.

Hi - just inherited a site with some unusual international A records located
in the root level dns and under the gc in _msdcs
Identifying the IP's in question by looking them up doesn't look encouraging
- your thoughts?

I have added forwarders onto our perferred DNS server which is also
our primary AD in win2k3.
However this change does not show up on the secondary DNS advanced tab
section, nor to the changes refect on the secondary server when doing

I am getting the following error.
Event id 12293
Publishing the Key Management Service (KMS) to DNS in the 'domain
name' domain failed.

We are building our AD infrastructure from scratch. Due to limititations of
an AD integrated app we will be using, we are using 2003, most likely in
mixed mode.
I would like to create a forest root domain as a place holder and then a

We just installed Server 2003. The DC is our DNS server. Since we installed
2003, all clients have noticed a great slowdown in internet connectivity
performance. There is, however, no slow down in intranet browsing.
Is there some way to configure DNS in order to increase ...

I have a client who has a windows 2003 domain and a few xp and vista
clients. I noticed that the domain name is a single level. servername.abc
How can i fix this cause dns is acting up and under the foward lookup zone,
the zone abc has only the gray _msdcs folder. Need to get the ...

I have a client that has external dns servers for dns 1 and 2 for all of his
machines and even the DC Server. This is a windows 2003 domain with xp and
vista clients. I would assume that the dns servers should point to the DC.
What effect does this have using external dns ...

Is it possible to have dns for a website point to a directory?
e.g. www.abcorg.com points to www.xyzorg.com/abcorg
and the user sees the address bar show www.abcorg.com.
Thanks!

I have a simple (old)  NT server development environment using MS DNS
I read that creating a DNS  wildcard host  domain entry  and IP address
should route
all subdomain requestss to the stated IP address

My current SOA  refresh interval is 15 mins and retry interval is 10 mins,
expires after 1 days.
Noticed that when I change the host recordf, the client pc still not getting
the update after 1 hour and the pc have to restart or renew /dns then get

Gurus,
In my company I want to move the DNS services from the current Linux servers
to our two Active Directory Domain Controllers.  I am getting political
push-back by the Linux guys running these machines.  I am looking for