Re: W2K3 Enterprise R2 servers not accessible

Thank you. I added the PTR and that took care of it.

Now back to your question: "Are you able to resolve their IP addresses using
nslookup?"

This is a very basic question but I am just trying to get my arms around
W2k3 and DNS, etc.
I have gone to a DOS prompt on my server in Domain B. I type nslookup and
it now brings back the DNS server information. At the > prompt, what do I
type to try to resolve their IP addresses?

Thanks.

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

Rachel L Chipman wrote:
If I am on one of the machines that I can't get to through Network
Places (I can connect to them using VNC)

Network Place requires NetBIOS resolution if you cannot browse to the
machines in Network Places, it is a NetBIOS problem. NetBIOS over TCP/IP
must be enabled and the NIC must be on the same subnet.
If it is on a different subnet, you need WINS for browsing. Lmhosts will
work too, but frankly WINS is better because it is dynamic. Something else
about WINS, you can configure your default domain zone, the one in your DNS
suffix search list, to search a WINS server for unknown hosts.(WINS tab of
the zone properties) That means it is unnecessary for clients to register in
DNS.

and I run nslookup (I just
type nslookup at the cmd prompt), I get the default server and IP
address of my DNS server. Is this what I should be getting?
This is nslookup performing a reverse lookup on the DNS server IP.



If I run nslookup on my Domain B server, I get the following message:
"DNS request timed out. Timeout was 2 seconds. *** Can't find
server name for address ##.###.##.##: Timed out.
Default server: Unknown
Address: ##.###.##.##

What needs to be done to resolve this? This COULD be what is causing
my other problems...?

This is nslookup doing a reverse lookup on the IP of the DNS server and it
cannot find a PTR, this has no bearing on whether DNS is working or not,
create a PTR for the IP address.


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