Re: DHCP not assigning DNS

From: Enkidu (enkidu_at_xyzcliffpxyz.com)
Date: 06/30/04


Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:58:52 +1200


Ouch! That is where a DC registers itself! Can you login OK?

Cheers,

Cliff

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:12:10 -0700, "Christine Niblo"
<c_ausman@hotmail.com> wrote:

>The clients were configured to get DNS information from DHCP, but since it
>was not working, I had to manually assign a DNS server to the clients. Last
>night I looked at the DNS server and noticed that there were two identical
>zones (one was _msdcs.domain.com and the other was just domain.com). I
>don't know how that happened. I removed the first one and thought that
>might help, but it didn't. :-(
>
>Thanks,
>Chrissie
>"Enkidu" <enkidu@xyzcliffpxyz.com> wrote in message
>news:8vf2e0dk223rbmb9va43eek01jdp06nrqu@4ax.com...
>>
>> Try a reboot after the /release. Have the clients somehow lost the
>> setting for DHCP setting the DNS IPs in the NICs?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Cliff
>>
>> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:22:07 -0700, "Christine Niblo"
>> <c_ausman@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi. I haven't checked the event ID yet, but I will tonight. I have had
>the
>> >user do a ipconfig /release and renew to no avail.
>> >Thanks,
>> >Chrissie
>> >
>> >
>> >"Enkidu" <enkidu@xyzcliffpxyz.com> wrote in message
>> >news:dbepd05omov1tjm31nbu5skibaf721m5bi@4ax.com...
>> >> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:41:32 -0700, "Chris Niblo"
>> >> <c_ausman@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Hi. I am running a Windows 2003 Server as DC, DNS and DHCP.
>> >> > Initially, everything was peachy, but lately clients have not been
>> >> > able to access the Internet and it turns out that they were not being
>> >> > assigned the DNS IP (I did ipconfig/ all and nothing was listed for
>> >> > DNS). Can anyone offer some advice as to why this is happening?
>> >> > For now, I have statically assigned the DNS server, but I'd like it
>to
>> >> > work properly through DHCP.
>> >> >
>> >> Have you looked in Event Viewer? Any DNS/DHCP related events in there?
>> >>
>> >> Have you tried a ipconfig /release followed by ipconfig /renew?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Cliff
>> >
>>
>



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