We have a situation at my workplace where QIP is used for the primary DNS
solution. This is ran by another group within the organization. Our problem
is that the DNS administrators are constantly changing subnet assignments and
communications are non-existant across groups due to ...

Hi NG,
I've added a new Domain Controller (on a new W2k8 64bit server) to my
exisiting DC's (all W2K3 32bit servers).
After recommended "adpreps" and adding the AD DS role and the DNS role in

I have a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain, with DDNS and DHCP, with
a mix of Windows and Linux boxes all connected to the domain (linux
boxes connected with Winbind and Samba).
My problem is that the linux boxes, which get their IP addresses from

Hi all;
I have a problem regarding to root hints in my DNS infrastructure. I have a
single domain with a single domain controller in my lab. I deleted all the
root hints entries in the Root Hints tab manually to simulate the following

Gurus,
Just wondering if any of you regular contributors here may have implemented
DNSSEC and what were your thoughts on it - good idea or not worth the time?

Can you please point me in the right direction with regards to the following
error:
"Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer
network..."

I have two offices. One has main dns and dc. Remote office has secondary dns
and dc for the computers at that office. Two hardware routers maintain the
vpn link between the offices for replication. Here is my problem. When the
vpn link goes down (randomly from time to time for a ...

First of all we have just integrated 3 Server 2008 boxes in our
domain.  We are currently running on 2000 domain level and 2000 domain
controller.  I have dcpromo a 2008 box as a DC.  We are currently
running fine as a DC, the problem is with DNS.  I am not quite sure I

We have been getting the following error on user devices when logging in.
The domain/site name is correct.  DNS is AD Integrated.  DNS has all the
containers and SRV records for the domain scdl.local.  Two DCs for the domain
are Windows 2003 R2 SP2.

My question is, when I go to the DHCP management console and I ask for
PROPERTIES of a DHCP server, under ADVANCED there is a Credential button
next to the DNS Dynamic updates registration credentials. What is the
username they are referring to there? I beleive it's a different ...

I'm getting some errors on a few client computers when logging in from
the event viewer.  The are getting error 1053 saying user or computer
not found.  Also message about not able to find domain controller.  We
have removed and old 2003 SBS domain controller from the network and

We run Windows 2003 DNS.  I noticed today that when I typed in a bad DNS
name in my browser that it sent me to the following site:  
wwwe.sitefindservice.info (which is an advertising site).  
If I type in any URL that doesn't exist, I get sent to this site.  For

We are using mail.company.com and mail2.company.com as our webmail
addresses, which is published and registered with ISP's DNS. To secure it we
are using wild card certificate, but facing problem with some Mobiles which
are not compatible with WildCard certificate. So our ...

I have two Windows 2003 Servers, one is the the PDC and the other is
the domain member. I've configured DNS service on both.
Neither of them can resolve a few sites, most notably
download.microsoft.com. Other names are resolved fine. There are no

We have the below error in our newly setup 2003 Domain Controller, it
generates whenever DNS service is restarted. The errors only shown on 1 DC,
the other DC do not have the errors. Actually, the DC firstly was setup using
this Domain DNS name called ‘ADC.sg’. Due to some reason ...