Re: dns server error

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From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:14:04 -0500

In news:00c601c4a63d$ea704a60$a301280a@phx.gbl,
shamim <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> commented
Then Kevin replied below:
> hello dear
>
> i am facing a problem in my windows 2000 network. i was
> having 3 servers, one was pdc and another 2 was bdc. first
> i transfered the all 5 roles of pdc to one bdc, but after
> that i started to face problem with domain controller
> security policy,i was not able to open this. so i again
> removed the role from bdc and transfered it to the
> original pdc.but the replication is not working and other
> bdc and exchange server is not able to locate the global
> catalog. i can create user account on pdc, but i am not
> able to create mail box on exchange server, during cration
> it is giving following error
>
> error updating attributes
> the domain controller for specified domain is not
> available or cann't be contacted.
>
> My dns server which is running on pdc is missing srv
> records ,namely _msdcs,_tcp,_ldap,_udp.how can i get these
> srv records back.

Post an ipconfig /all it could be any one of several problems, your ipconfig
/all will get us started diagnosing this. 

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