Re: dns lookup failure

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.LSAOL.COM)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:13:24 -0600

In news:11d6601c410dd$d0b0c8c0$a501280a@phx.gbl,
Mrfixit <mr.fixit@iup.edu> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> This occured during an upgrade to W2k Server.
> Had to rebuild from scratch, promoted to a DC and
> receive the following error when doing dcdiag.
> All servers are pingable.
>
> Error:
> the dsa operation is unable to proceed because of a dns
> lookup failure

Can you post an ipconfig /all from this DC?
I suspect possible disjointed namespace or you ISP's DNS in TCP/IP
properties. 

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