I have been given a project to migrate one child domain abc in a forest called group.local (abc.group.local) to another child domain in completely different forest call xyz.group.local. Since the forest roots of both forests are the same I cannot easily get DNS to resolve in order to create a...
I have an existing domain controller with active directory integrated dns installed but in has to be decommissioned as the hardware is not supported.. All workstations and servers have the ip of this server as the primary dns. I have built another dc with ad integrated dns on it. As I don't want to...
I have an active directory domain controller running DNS server on win 2003 server. I want to change my address schema so i need to change ip address for this server. What do i need to do with DNS SOA and NS records and A records. Can i just change server ip address or what
A DNS uses UDP packet to resolve IP addresses. What happens when the DNS names to be looked up exceeds 576 bytes (the maximum UDP packet size)? Can it be sent in two packets?
From what I've read, when a Windows DNS client dynamically creates a DNS record for itself, its AD computer account is granted "Write" access to its DNS record, allowing the client to dynamically update it's record in the future. For some reason in our environment several servers' host records are...
Hello Sir, I am a MCSE Student, i am trying to install Active Directoy on my Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Server, with the command "DCPROMO" within the INstallation i am asked to setup that " Install and Configure the DNS on this server and et this computer to use this DNS Server as its preffered...
Can DNS be implemented in-house without connecting to the Internet?
I wanted to learn how to manage an Enterprise Network. Can I please get a Step by step instruction on how to setup an Enterprise Network on Windows considering Active Directories Sites and Services and DNS Sites and how to start and build this Enterprise Network so I can learn how to manage it? ...
I am a contractor new to this particular company. One of the departments in my production environment requires JRE to access a specific financial website through our proxy server. With 17 of 19 clients (WinXP SP2 fully patched), access is OK - no issues. With 2 of 19, the financial website...
I need to migrate users from a child domain in one forest to a child domain in a second forest. The issue is that the forest root domains are named identically. For sake of simplicity lets call the source domain xyz.group.local and the target domain abc.group.local. I created a WINS relationship...
Hi,I am going to deploy MS Web server in my organization, I want to perches a new server for web server and Internet connection. Please guide me which server and Internet connection are recommended now days?
If I change our company's DNS to a different host, will it keep our email from working? I am unsure of how MX handling works, but right now we are routing our email through postini (anti-spam service) and then its being sent to our domain. I would think that changing the DNS would only mess...
I would like to configure Active Directory so that it is accessible through a DNS via the Internet. Particularly I would like to access URLs available on the Intranet through the Internet, as in the case of MS OWA. Is this possible?
In the DNS protocol, an application that accepts either a dotted-decimal IP address or a hostname should assume the former, and if that fails, then assume a hostname. What happens if the order of the tests is reversed?
in win 2003 domain controller it is recommeded that the DNS shud b its own IP address,so where i should put the ip of ISP.
I was wondering if anyone had instructions on configuring the nameservers if I am running a server from home. My website is available port 80 with apache tomcat and i have a mysql database setup. Now that I bought the domain names I need to configure the nameservers so that when a request is made...
Hi. We run a Windows 2000 domain. All of a sudden, DNS entries are dropping like flies. We increased our scavening times, but this has not helped. We checked our logs, but could not find anything significant. Any suggestions on a tool to use or something else we can monitor? Thanks!
We recently installed a new partition with a 2 port ethernet card. Each port has its own IP address and connections through the network work fine. The problem is that both ports are known to the DNS servers by the one system name so when a DNS name lookup occurs, some users are directed to one...
Hi all, I have a server 2003 which works as a file and backup server and DNS for about 30 computers. for some reason i have lost all privileges. when i try to share a folder for a specific user. I cannot, in the location to search for users it doesnt show my DC it only shows my local computer. also...
I have a 30-user average office network running on a Windows Server 2003 R2 server. The server is running AD, DNS, DHCP and WINS on a single box running as the domain controller. (In the future I plan to add a second domain controller to reduce the number of single points of failure.) This is a...


