DCDiag errors - How to fix?

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From: Fran (no email)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: 23 Jun 2004 06:11:53 -0500

I am having some backup issues with new clients and I'm trying to
resolve them. On another NG I got some great advice on cleaning up DNS
issues to fix this and it seems to be working. When I ran DCDiag I got
several errors about the DC not being configured. So I flushed the DNS
cache (Ipconfig /flushdns) and ran Netdiag /fix. I got several errors
when I ran NetDiag /Fix like:

 DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed
           [WARNING] Cannot find a primary authoritative DNS server or
 the name '[server].[domainname].com.'. [RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE]
             The name '[server].[domainname].com.' may not be
 registered in DNS.

There was a whole list of these errors. I tried a quick search on the
internet but didn't come up with much (in english, anyway ;)

Both NetDiag and DCDiag fail with errors. This is an active directory
domain controller (Windows 2000 serverr) and the only DC on the LAN. I
have suspected DNS issues for a while but didn't realize how
integrated DNS was with AD so I'm fishing now to fix these problems
for them.

The controller points to itself as the primary DNS controller and all
the workstations use DHCP and point to this DNS as well.

Any thoughts on how I can diagnose and properly fix these issues?

Fran

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