Re: clients using DHCP cannot resolve names after a while



dbibaud wrote:
> absolutely, they are our AD DNS servers. I need to clarify something,
> I forgot to mention that we can resolve anything that is either in
> the cache or on the AD network, but when this happens it's another
> domain that we can't resolve names to. It's weird because when the
> issue arises we can get a response from whatever is in the DNS server
> cache but it won't forward to the the other domains DNS server unless
> the nic's are configured statically for DNS or the DHCP server is
> restarted. I know it sounds strange, that's cause it is VERY strange.
> What we did was this: after not being able to resolve names we
> statically configured the nics and flushed resolver, it works fine,
> go back to DHCP assigned DNS flush the resolver cache and nothing
> resolves(if it isn't in the DNS server cache). Restart the DHCP
> server and everything works right away. Thanks for the reply.

Can you post the ipconfig /all from the DC and a DHCP assigned client?

Who knows the list of running services may help too, in a command prompt
type
net start and hit enter.


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