Many thanks in advance
Have a strange problem for a few days now. DNS all looks OK but can not
longer OWA via IE in the office but can when using the server name or
IP/owa. Also cannot RDP the TS Server except by IP. And also file transfers

we have multiple locations and several dns and dhcp servers setup through out
our domain. dhcp and dns are set up correctly and we do get clients to
update. What we are finding is the client will get a lease and you check dns
and it does not match what was given by dhcp. we have ...

I am a bit confused about DNS devolution, when it is needed and when it is
not. Do you want to have devolution turned on for servers that are not in an
AD domain (i.e. DMZ servers)?
I know it should be turned on in my AD domain. I am confused with how I

Hi i am getting the follow error:
The DNS server is waiting for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to
signal that the initial synchronization of the directory has been completed.
The DNS server service cannot start until the initial synchronization is

After investigating why a name kept re-registering in the incorrect case
(SAP App)... I discovered this feature...
I now know my DNS uses the default period of 7 days (604800 seconds) via
using dnscmd...

I have a new AD domain.  My first DC has two interfaces - public an
private.  I want DNS to be served only for the public address (I will b
using split DNS later for private addresses.)  Every time I remove the
record for the DC hostname from DNS, it comes back.  How do I tel

i have a situatiion where an IT company made changes to the A record in the
forward lookup zone in a Windows 2003 DNS, my question is, will I be able to
restore the old DNS information (file) from a recent tape backup?  I had a
look at the backup folder under c ...

G'Day All,
Greetings and best wishes. I posted this on the AD list but, after thinking
about it, I believe this list is the better one.
I have searched high and low for a solution here and am stumpped. I have not

We are trying to understand why our ntds.dit is growing compare to last year.
When we ran ADRAP tool it shows the DNS nodes (30010)
Tombstoned DNS nodes (200001) toal (230011)
this might be because of low scavening / aging value set

I have a situation where I have a Linux box which is not part of AD.  It
hosts a web-site and has a FQDN.  I do 1 to 1 NAT through my firewall, so
this machine has a private IP address internally, but all web requests from
the public network are forwarded to it just fine.

PDC & SDC - windows 2003 enterprize
when i fire NSLOOKUP command....
e.g.
c:>nslookup 192.168.0.XX (XX is PDC).... this command shows follwoin

We have a trust be two windows 2003 domain but when I'm on the on network I
cannot ping by name hosts on the other domain without using a
fully-qualified domain name.
How I want it to work is, if I am on a computer using the DNS of the ALPHA

I have a couple of Win2008SP2 stand-alone external DNS servers.
I have a problem that Secondary DNS "unable to resolve" primary.
if my server name is just NS2... I will get Error 414.
if in "Computer Name/Domain Changes" I go to More.. and select Primary DNS

Hi,,
We have 4 DNS servers over two locations, they are all running windows
2008 , in an AD integration environment and set to accept from only
secure sources.

I see this error in the logs of some of my XP systems on a 2003 domain
and sometimes they are disconnected from the network when it appears.
The name "LCS072225223004:35" could not be registered on the Interface
with IP address 192.168.n.a