Re: Help with Fatal DNS errors

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:43:32 -0500

In news:g_Jsc.55245$oQ6.3341@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com,
John Smith <info@cbc.info> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> On our network, we have three W2K domain controllers. Server one
> (111DATA) is running DHCP, WINS, and DNS. Server two (110SERVER) is
> running WINS and DNS. Server three (213PRINT) is running DNS.
> Everything was working great until...
>
> Last week we changed out the motherboard and processor in 110server.
> We upgraded from a P4 1.4 GHz on an Intel DG850 board with an Intel
> Pro 10/100 PCI network card to a P4 2.8 GHz on an Intel D865GBF board
> with an Intel onboard 10/100 LAN port. It has the same hard drives
> and controller card. All this is to say that now whenever I configure
> the new network card, I get a message that says the old network card
> (which isn't in the system) is configured with the same address and
> may cause problems if the old network card ever becomes active.

Win2k does not automatically remove old hardware from the registry, use the
remove hardware wizard, then show hidden devices to remove all instances of
the hardware from the old motherboard and NIC.

>
> Also at the same time, we put SP4 on all three machines. (They were
> running SP3)

Your domain is a single-label name, this causes problems with Win2kSP4 and
later, WinXP and Win2k3. You will have to make registry entries on all of
these clients and servers.
300684 - Information About Configuring Windows 2000 for Domains with
Single-Label DNS Names
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300684

826743 - Clients cannot dynamically register DNS records in a single-label
forward lookup zone: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=826743 

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