Why do I need a secondary DNS?
why do I want two dns servers to have operating in my IP network envionment

Answer Question   |  February 11, 2011  1:50 AM
DNS management, DNS server, DNS Server Configuration, IP networking, IP networks

Windows Server 2008 domain group policy
I manage one site on a Windows 2008 domain. I have one server for this site which is the DNS server for the site and which I use to write group policies for my site. The main domain controller for the domain is in another site, in another building. We have separate IP subnets, and [...]

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2011  3:52 PM
DNS server, Group Policy, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Domain

Accessing DNS from client server
how to access dns server from client and about /etc/resolve./etc/hosts

Answer Question   |  January 9, 2011  5:05 PM
Client Access, DNS, DNS Lookup, DNS management, DNS server

How to configure DNS server & client in Linux RedHat
How can I configure a DNS server & client in Linux RedHat?

Answer Question   |  May 7, 2013  8:23 AM
DNS, DNS server, Linux, Linux administration, Red Hat, tecnical

Creating a backup DNS server on Windows Server 2008 Active directory network
On a windows 2008 ad network how do we create a backup dns server? Can we have it answer queries automatically if the first one is not available? Is replication automatic?

Answer Question   |  June 27, 2011  3:19 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory backup, Backup Server, DNS, DNS Backup, DNS server, Network Backup, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Active Directory

Backing up DNS zones from Active Directory 2003 network
How can we back up our DNS zones from an Active Directory 2003 network? DNS is AD integrated.

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2010  3:56 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2003, DNS, DNS management, DNS server

Windows Server 2003 Strange DNS issues
I have taken over an AD/DNS install (was not employeed when it was initially set up) and I am seeing things I think are strange to say the least. for example, if my FQDN was example.com – this is a typical nslookup/ping session:   C:>nslookup Default Server:  w2003server.example.com Address:  192.168.1.5 > google.com Server:  w23003server.example.com Address:  [...]

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  3:17 PM
DNS, DNS server, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 NDR, NDR, TCP/IP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

Client and DNS connection fails after shutting down force domain
I have a force Domain which is client are conected with it , and I have additional domain but , if i shut down the force domain , the connection between clients and DNS are failed ! it should not happen coruption , because the DNS2 it defined by DHCP in force domain … please [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  6:07 PM
Client connections, DHCP scope, DNS, DNS server

Fix an incorrect IP address on our DNS server
We are running 2003 server and dns for the network. A website changed its iP address and we still have the old one cached. How can we fix this? Ipconfig /flushdns on the client and server did nothing nor did restarting the dns service on the client and server.

Answer Question   |  October 14, 2010  5:47 PM
DNS, DNS server, DNS Server Configuration, IP address, IP Address Allocation, IP address conflict, Windows Server 2003

Server 2008 R2 DNS and Load testing
How can I test my DNS server to make sure it is operating properly on a Windows 2008 R2 server? Can I run a stress or load test from there as well? If not how can I do that?

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2010  4:10 PM
DNS, DNS server, LOAD, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

DNS server configuration in Windows XP
how to configure dns server in XP

Answer Question   |  September 14, 2010  12:32 PM
DNS, DNS configuration, DNS registration, DNS server, DNS Server Configuration, Domain Name System, Windows XP, Windows XP administration

Cannot access external website from within our network
Hello all. I have a weird issue. Our company has an externally-hosted web site. we can get to it from outside the company network but not within. This has been working but stopped a few days ago. For some weird reason there is an entry in our internal DNS server for the external IP address [...]

Answer Question   |  September 13, 2010  1:49 AM
DNS, DNS errors, DNS server, External IP Addresses, Firewalls

Old address listed for domain name
One of my Windows DNS servers must have an old address listed for a domain name. How can I fix it manually? Windows Server 2003.

Answer Question   |  September 1, 2010  1:51 PM
DNS server, Domain Administration, Domain name, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 error messages

Adding company affiliate code to the Amazon URL
Is this doable and legal? We want anyone that uses amazon.com from our company computers to have our company affiliate code added to the url. We would want to do this via our DNS servers which are Windows 2003. Is this possible? Is it a violation of the Amazon TOC or laws?

Answer Question   |  August 31, 2010  2:27 PM
Amazon, DNS server, URL, URL Encoding, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Group Policy

Network alerts for critical conditions
How can I create an alert on my network to email or sms me on critical conditions such as down gateways, dns servers, dos attacks and the such? Is this available to Windows 2008 Server? What options will I have and is there a walk-through or something about it online?

Answer Question   |  October 14, 2010  2:40 PM
DNS server, DOS Attack, Network Connection Problem, Network management, Windows Server 2008

when we use DNS Server .. ?
Hi,i need help regarding clarification for certain points in DNS Server.   1. When we search some shared folder \192.168.0.99 in this request do we contact dns server, and what if this ip belongs to our server DC 2. When user name : sam@xyz.com, then does it contact dns server for validation. Please help ….

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2010  11:52 PM
DNS, DNS server, Network Shared Folder

DNS zone problem
Hi i installed domain server (for excample demo.dm) 2 years ago. Now i want install a new domain server in this forest (for excample test.dm). I created tis domain server. But i have one problem. When i trying “connect another domain” from demo.dm to test.dm i get erro “cannot find domain controller …”. I opened [...]

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2010  9:07 AM
Active Directory, AD, DNS server, Domain Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain

AD how to check secondry dns sever
[strong]if primary dns not working, all quary is forwading to secondry dns but secondy dns is not responding. how to check secondry dns sever[/strong]

Answer Question   |  April 26, 2010  1:02 PM
Active Directory DNS setup, DNS configuration, DNS errors, DNS server

Linux DNS server in a Win2003 domain
I have a Win2003 domain with mostly XP clients and 4 linux servers doing intranet/web, database, email and DNS. Initially I had the 2003 server doing DNS since it is the DC for windows clients. But the linux machines weren’t happy. Moved the DNS server to a linux box, the other linux boxes were happy [...]

Answer Question   |  February 25, 2010  3:11 PM
DNS, DNS server, Linux, Windows Server 2003

Need to change DNS server IP address
Does anyone have a script that will allow me to change the dns server ip address of all my workstations automatically?

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2009  2:36 PM
Active Directory, DNS server, IP address