Rebuild Forest Root Domain Controller

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Hi,

We are planning a rebuild of our Forest Root domain controller, the
FSMO roles have been transferred to another domain controller within
the domain, both domain controllers are running WINS as the only
service so we have redunancy as far as NETBIOS is concerned. The
problem started with the local DNS on the forest root dc not resolving
when set to local within the TCP/IP properties prompting us to
rebuild. My hesitation on this is DNS, when we rebuild the forest root
is DNS going to drop off rendrering the root and child domains
inoperable? the dns zones are all active directory integrated except
for one external DNS residing as a secondary zone. Will this rebuild
go as planned with the given situation?

Many thanks in advance.


Nino
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