Re: problems demoting a win 2k DC (SRV records missing?)

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From: Jeromy Statia [MSFT] (jstatia_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:56:16 -0800

from the command prompe: "net stop netlogon & net start netlogon" should
re-register all DNS records which are required by the Domain Controller.

Is the DNS server that your server is pointing to its self? also if you have
more then one domain controller (which you might) you need to ensure that
all the records for the other Domain Controllers are also registered, as the
DC will have to replicate off any changes it thinks it might have along with
transfering any FSMO role holders to this other DC.

tx 

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"Bart Keys" <bart_keys@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a60201c3eb86$3d4ff0a0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hiya on the 27th I was asking about problems promoting a
> domain.   I spoke with Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]
> <cwshultz@mvps.org> over the issue and receive some good
> advice.
>
> Anyway it turned out that the problem was that the SRV
> records were missing from the DNS, well now I find that
> the machine that we promoted is named incorrectly this
> can not be changed while the machine is a DC so I need to
> demote it..
>
> So I ran the dcpromo command and during the demotion
> procees recived this error "The DSA operation is unable
> to proceed because of a DNS lookup failure"
>
> I'm thinking I may still be missing one or two SRV
> records, can some one point me at a list so I can add
> them to the DNS server by hand?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bart
>

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