Re: Cannot join domain...very odd

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"MLT-TECH" <mlttech@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ujnbHBg2JHA.5244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF THE NETDIAG AND DCDIAG COMMANDS.

Host Name. . . . . . . . . : SERVER-A
IP Address . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway. . . . . . :
Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

So, there's no default gateway. Is this DNS Server configured as a =ROOT= server? If not, and without a Default Gateway, how is this DNS Server supposed to resolve Internet based addresses?

Default gateway test . . . . . . . : Failed

[FATAL] NO GATEWAYS ARE REACHABLE.
You have no connectivity to other network segments.
If you configured the IP protocol manually then
you need to add at least one valid gateway.

See.... :-)

NetBT name test. . . . . . . . . . : Passed
[WARNING] You don't have a single interface with the <00> 'WorkStation Service', <03> 'Messenger Service', <20> 'WINS' names defined.

That's probably not a good thing, either.


Although, in all fairness, the *original* error was a TIMEOUT error:

The error was: "This operation returned because the timeout period expired."
(error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.test.local

TIMEOUT errors are typically caused by network overloads, server overloads, or micro-duration transient outages.

After confirming that all DNS Servers in the domain do contain a properly formed SRV record for the test.local domain, conduct some testing. See if you can duplicate the error. If you can, troubleshoot the cause. If you cannot, then press on with life and chalk this up to one of those things that happens.




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