Re: DNS server nslookup failure

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 04/19/04


Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:45:50 -0500

In news:0bdf01c425ba$9488e200$a101280a@phx.gbl,
Jack Ling <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> Hi all,
>
> My W2K3 domain controller has dns issues. I query it
> with nslookup and it has dns request timed out:
>
> ***** screen capture ends starts ******
>
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.RHU01>nslookup
> DNS request timed out.
> timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Can't find server name for address 10.10.1.1: Timed
> out
> Default Server: UnKnown
> Address: 10.10.1.1
>
>> server localhost
> DNS request timed out.
> timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Can't find address for server localhost: Timed out
>>
>
> ***** screen capture ends ******

242906 - DNS Request Timed Out Error Message When You Start Nslookup From a
Command Line: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;242906
172060 - NSLOOKUP Can't Find Server Name for Address 127.0.0.1:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172060

>
>
> I have 4004, 4015, 6702 errors but Microsoft's website
> doesn't give me information about them when I was
> directed to there.

If you only get 4004 and 4015 at start up you can ignore them.

http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=6702&source=

> I don't have Reverse lookup set. Do I need to?

Yes.

> Besides, I have another W2K3 server (say, server 2) which
> will be used as a secondary server w/ DNS set as well. I
> do have an "A" record of server 2 on server 1's DNS
> forwarding zone.

Depending on if the zone is stored in Active Directory on the DC and how
replicartion is configured on the the zone, you may not need a secondary
zone.

> I ping server1.our_domain.name is ok. But if I ping
> server2.our_domain.name, it complians that it can't find
> the host server2.our_domain_name.
>
> I didn't do much on the DNS server after it was
> automatically created when I set up Active Directory. Do
> I need to manually do some extra configuration steps?
>
>
> Your advice is much appreciated.
> thanks,
> jackling

Can you post an ipconfig /all?

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