Re: Advice Needed - AD integrated DNS Zone

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Fredrick A. Zilz <fzilz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted this:
> Thank you,
> Trying to trouble shoot a client DNS issue. A couple of my windows
> XP users (all my users are windows XP sp2 users) are not resolving
> computers in my AD zone when connecting to either of two DNS servers
> (AD ) but resolve correctly when DNS is set the third server.
> Unfortunately, I don't want the DNS that is correctly resolving
> addresses to be a DC and longer.
> The users recieve a timeout when using Nslookup. I have gone so far
> as to remove the client computer from my domain, deleted the Computer
> from AD and then added the client computer back to the Domain with a
> new computer name. Same issue. The remainder of my users using
> resolve addresses correctly when using any of the three DCs as their
> DNS server. Note: the users correctly resolve address not in my AD
> zone - I don't use forwarding, just root hints. So far the users with
> this issue are laptops, but I don't know if that is coincidence or
> significant.
>
> I have run Dcdiag and netdiag and everything passes. I don't know
> what to look for. I have opened a client that is not working next to
> a client that is and looked through thier TCP/IP configuration and do
> not see anything different. DHCP assigns ip address and DNS for all
> users.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas you could send my way.

Post an ipconfig /all from the failing clients and run 'net start' (without
the quotes) in a command prompt. post the results from these two commands.



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