Re: DSGetDCName

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I did run dcdiag and netdiag on all four of our servers. 2 servers at site A
and 1 server at site B and 1 server at site C. There is only one domain which
all the sites belong. All servers passed the trust test in netdiag.

The very first domain server passed the advertising part for dcdiag. T

The other three servers returned ,for the advertising part of dcdiag:
DsGetDcName returned information for the server A when they were trying to
reach servers B,C,and D.

Also, if I run NsLookup on any of my DNS server:
Set type=srv
_.ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.<domain name>
I receive info for all four servers.

Hope this is shedding more light on the problem.
Regards

"Steve Duff [MVP]" wrote:

> This error should be reported along with a status code (such as ERROR_INVALID_DOMAIN, etc.) which provides a better clue as to what
> is going on.
>
> You can see this in some situations if your NetBIOS domain name and your DNS domain name qualifier aren't the same. The error in
> this case is typically benign as the service will re-call GetDCName requesting rediscovery which then works. It is also possible you
> have a DNS configuration problem that is being masked by some fallback resolution. So you should definitely run a dcdiag and a
> netdiag and check that they come up clean. You can also use nltest with the /dsgetdc:name qualifier to check that the DC name in
> fact does resolve properly.
>
> Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
> Ergodic Systems, Inc.
>
> "Owen@7" <Owen7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5CB802C6-2F26-4174-9153-EC0DB440B571@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Running 2000server with sp 4 on a 2000Domain
> > Everything seems to be running fine but I receive errors that
> > DSGetDCName failed
> >
> > is there any way to check this, and if there is a problem, is there a fix?
> >
> > Regards,
>
>
>
.

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