We are moving to IP Flex Reach for VOIP and our WAN. My ISP is providing a
block of IP addresses for each location but they say they will not provide
DNS addresses for those IP's unless they are hosting our domain. Does this
sound right?

i need to delegate a reverse zone for my Microsoft  Dns Server W2K3 to
another external  dns server.
The problem is that i would delegate only a part of this zone  (my subnet is
192.168.10.1 - 255.255.255.128)  so if a client query for example  ip :

I have an application that uses the NetBios name to make a connection.
FQDN works fine but not the NetBios name.  We manage 2 domains in our
enviorment and the application resides in the other domain. I dont want to
edit host files. and we don't use WINS. Is there a way to set up ...

How does NSlookup decide which server is the default server?
Second question
I am using a non Microsoft DNS appliance for DHCP to assign DNS servers.  
The servers that I define as my primary and secondary dns servers do not show

I am having a problem with controlling the DNS registration on a pair of
multi-homed clients.  Here is the situation.
In one of our child domains, there are two DCs, both running 2003, but soon
to be upgraded to 2008.  Two new member servers have been joined to the

My Environment description:
DHCP with Primary and secondary DNS running on Windows 2003 AD
I have noticed that when the primary DNS server is offline some of the
applications running on clients wouldn’t work. Such as MS Dynamics and

I have configured a domain with DNS integrated with AD. I have an internal
website named www.domain.com. With respect to this i have made the forward
lookups in the dns server. It works when iam trying to access in the client
pc. But sometimes it is giving page cannot be ...

Got a problem with a new setup.
I have the following:
domain.com <= Registered, so publically accessible.
Then have the DNS managed for domain.com controlled by the ISP that is

Have set up dns scavenging on one of 3 dns servers using active
directory-integrated zones.
We have set no-refresh interval for 5 days, refresh interval for 5
days and we have set the dhcp lease duration for 5 days and clicked th

I've two windows server domain controllers, 2008 srv and 2003 srv configured
with DNS AD integrated. I would like to know which are the best practices
for set IP DNS order on servers. This is my actual configuration:
DC1:

just finding some curious things that I'm trying to resolve the answer
to.  Here it goes.
TTL for google is 5 mins
I ping it then

Any white paper some where,  how to setup the windows 2008 to run a web
site. I need to setup it via IIS7 etc... so it will be easier if there are
some specific steps for it.
Thanks,

This is something I'm doing in a test environment using Virtual PC.
Two Servers, both 2003
Server1
domain1.com

I have set up two servers (abc and xyz) and promote them to become domain
controllers with domain name say tamkprod-add.test.com
I have also set up AD-integrated DNS in both of these servers.
Question 1:

Anybody please help, this IP address(168.254.2.237) always appear in our
INTERNAL DNS SERVER entry as name server.
Even if i delete the IP after several minutes it will appear again, please
help.