Re: Sites and Services problem with 2003 Server

In news:1142002658.244000.78560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Surfin' RC <RichChristy@xxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:
Ace
Before I made the new site folders and configured subnets everyting
was working fine when all DC's were in one folder. Replication between
all sites was happening. I could make manual replication connections
and replicate immediately. Even DNS was replicating extremly fast. If
I made a change in domain1 zone, the SOA incremented, within 5-10
seconds the records and SOA showed in the other zones. Now testing I
recreated the default site folder and moved all the DC's back into
it, within 30 minutes everything went back to normal. I decided to
move them back to the newly created sites and let it go overnight
until this morning. When I came in the site link that I deleted in
the root domain finally was gone is the sites below. I still get the
same error however when I right click the connections and try to
manually replicate it now. It comes back with the:
"one or more of these active directory connections are between domain
controllers in different sites. active directory will attempt to
replicate across these connections".
to answer all your questions: every DC is pointing to one of the LAN
dns servers in its site. All DC's are registered with A records,
LdapIpAddress records, _msdcs.gc records. NSLOOKUP can resolve IP and
NAME internally and externally. Dhcp client is running on all dc's.
I have to check with the router guys, their in charge of the firewalls
and routers. Funny this is this. I can manual replicate now a
connection if its in the same site, as soon as I trey to do that in
another site it bombs out.
Here are the IPCONFIG logs

the first one is from the domain controller in the forest root in my
building and the second one if one of the main DC's in WashingDC

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : rootsrv1
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : klroot.corp
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : klroot.corp
kl.corp
kldc.corp
KLNC.CORP

Ethernet adapter Bridge:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : HP Network Team #1
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-20-F6-C8-4D
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.2.200
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.1.5
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.2.200

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : DCSRV01

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : kldc.corp

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : kldc.corp

kl.corp

klnc.corp

klroot.corp



Ethernet adapter LAN1:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : HP NC7782 Gigabit Server Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-20-F9-BF-62

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.17.2.205

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.17.1.4

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.17.2.205

Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 172.17.2.205

Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 172.17.2.210

all of this started happening last week when i created the sites
folders and moved the DCs to their new homes and configured the
Subnets. right now dns and replication seem to be working but its not
nearly as fast as it was before (replication). the SOA in the forest
zones are about 12 counts higher then the site zones below. and like i
said i can manualy replicate a automatic connection in sites and
services if its in the same site but as soon as i try to manually
replicate one from domain1 to domain2 i get that error.

The message:
"one or more of these active directory connections are between domain
controllers in different sites. active directory will attempt to
replicate across these connections".

Is normal as I mentioned, because the DCs replication between different
sites is governed by the schedule on the link. It's 3 hours by default and
hence waht it's telling you that it pretty much needs to wait until it's
allowed to replicate.

THanks for posting the ipconfigs. They look pretty clean, however, why all
the different suffixes? Does your forest have multiple trees in the forest?
That's what it appears to be. No matter, as long as all the domain trees in
the forest can resolve each other, that;'s all that counts.

Keep in mind what Sitse do for you:
1. Controls replication traffic
Scheduleable
Compresses data between bridgheads
2. Controls logon traffic for client logon and authentication
Clients will use DC/GCs in a site that matches their own subnets

Ace

Ace


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