Re: DNS Trouble
- From: "Doug Sherman [MVP]" <dsherman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:12:00 -0400
At least part of the problem is residual reference to the dead DC in Active
Directory. To clear this out, follow this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216498
Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
"Dale" <Dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:216267BE-5BB7-4A57-9F5F-0DE6F401A797@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> About six months ago my Windows 2000 DC died. I got a new server and
> upgraded to Server 2K3. Since then everything seems to function properly
on
> the network aside from a couple things that I think are all related.
Please
> bear in mind that this is a small organization so I've had to make my DC
do
> multiple things.
>
> Here are the symptoms:
>
> 1. When going to check email (EX2K) Outlook will ask for the user ID,
> password and domain even after having opened their email 30 minutes ago
> without incident. After a release/renew of the IP it works just fine.
>
> 2. We have two finance applications that will for some reason hang up and
> create huge problems with accuracy in the accounting transactions. We have
> ruled out all hardware on the machines and the software is correctly
> configured.
>
> 3.I've been getting an error in my DNS Event Viewer (message is posted
below).
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: DNS
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 4015
> Date: 7/14/2005
> Time: 7:48:37 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: ******
> Description:
> The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory.
> Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly. The extended
error
> debug information (which may be empty) is "0000218D: SvcErr:
DSID-031B063D,
> problem 5002 (UNAVAILABLE), data 0". The event data contains the error.
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> Data:
> 0000: 34 00 00 00 4...
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This error is reoccurring in the event viewer every few minutes.
>
> 4. I ran a netdiag /fix to see if I could resolve anything that way and it
> didn't help. I also ran a dcdiag and that had said that it fails while
doing
> a CrossRefValidation and it fails the DNS test.
>
> 5. it takes an inordinate amount of time to log on. It gets to "Applying
> Computer Policies" and sits and waits until, presumably, it times out and
> lets you in.
>
> Now the lastpart of all this is that when my 2K DC died, I was able to get
> it up and running, sort of, long enough to copy the DNS info over and the
AD.
> Made it real nice not to have to redo all that but now the 2K3 DC is
> referencing the old DC name in a couple areas.
>
> Is it possible that my network is still looking to find my old DC to
resolve
> IP's and other DNS information to instead of the my new 2K3 DC? If so,
what
> should I check or how could this be resolved?
>
> Let me know if you need more information. I tried to provide all I could
> without it being too much.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
.
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