Re: Sites and Services problem with 2003 Server

In news:1141944999.009368.134190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Surfin' RC <RichChristy@xxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:
actually i may have spoke to soon. it seems to be doing it again. i
get this responce when i right click one of the auto generated
connections and choose replicate now. "one or more of these active
directory connections are between domain controllers in different
sites. active directory will attempt to replicate across these
connections".

That's normal and replication will wait until the next scheduled time it is
allowed to replicate. Default is 3 hours.

the other thing i noticed is when i deleted the old
DEFAULTIPSITELINK from ADSS it shows it deleted from the root and
domain1 but from the other domains it is still showing. i did what
you said. i created the other site link objects, 3 of them actually
and added the other sites in them.

If I were you at this point, I would move ALL DCs into one Site, and change
the subnet objects so they are all (every subnet in your org) part of that
site. Then test replication between DCs. This will eiliminate the wait time
because of the schedule on the links, and to see if they are actually
communicating without Sites being a factor.

This is of course ALL assuming that your machines are only pointing to the
internal DNS servers in your org and NOT to any ISP (because the ISP doesn't
have info about your internal domain), that your domain name is not a single
label name, all DCs are registered into DNS for their A records, their
LdapIpAddress records, _msdcs.gc records (for the GCs), and that resolution
is working, that the DHCP Client service is running on all DCs (an important
service for resolution and registration whether a static IP or auto IP),
there are no firewall rules blocking any traffic between locations, and the
MTUs on your VPNs between locations have not been altered below 1500 (which
WILL cause havoc with LDAP communications).

If you can post an unedited ipconfig /all of two example DCs, that will help
with a good start to diagnose this.

Another question, when did this all start happening? Can you coorelate
anything to this when it started occuring?

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