Replication Problems

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From: TOM (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:43:30 -0800

I have 2 DC's in a child domain both running AD integrated
DNS. 1 DC, DC1, is a bridgehead server and DC2 is just a
DC. Both are GC's, DC1 holds the RID, PDC roles. DC2 holds
the infrastructure role. These two DC's just replaced 2
W2k Dc's. The problem is I dont think that replication is
working correctly. I am getting event ID 1864 in DC1 and
in DC2 when I run dcdiag it states that the ISTG is not
running and RPC server is not responding and that DC2 is
not responding to directory requests. I also get this in
DCdiag:
Testing server: CHILD\DC2
      Starting test: Connectivity
         * Active Directory LDAP Services Check
         The host d7f787fa-c111-4f3b-9b64-
695e79d36650._msdcs.parent.org could not be resolved to an
         IP address. Check the DNS server, DHCP, server
name, etc
         Although the Guid DNS name
         (d7f787fa-c111-4f3b-9b64-
695e79d36650._msdcs.parent.org)
         couldn't be resolved, the server name
         (DC2.child.parent.org) resolved to the IP address
         (192.168.5.7) and was pingable. Check that the
IP address is
         registered correctly with the DNS server.
         ......................... DC2 failed test
Connectivity

My question is (A) How do I resolve this? and (B) How can
I verify that replication is actually occurring
correctly? I have run replmon and I do not see any
errors?! Please help :( Thanks

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