RE: DNS query for active directory not stable?

Hi there it sounds like your clients are not picking up an IP address
properly first time round, thats why it starts to work after releasing and
renewing it. Can you confirm the IP settings on a machine when its not
working by running ipconfig /all ?
Chek that it has a valid ip, mask, gateway and dns servers and that the IP
isn't in the 169.254.x.x range as that is an ap that will appear when a dhcp
request fails.
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James Yeomans, BSc, MCSE


"Hii Sing Chung" wrote:

Hi,

I've encountered a number of occassions on different company networks and
different companies whereas the querying of active directory don't work some
of the time, and most of the time when the clients are Vista computers. For
example, \\domainname.int\domaindfsroot\dfspath gives path not found error
and at this moment, ping domainname.int will gives host not found error.
Then if I do a ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew, it will start to work
again. When the problem appear, adding a computer to the domain will give
domain not available error and user cannot log on saying domain controller
not available. How do I go about to make it is stable, as I use dfs-r
extensively. If DNS query for active directory fail, all dfs-r cannot be
located.

Ideas and suggestions?

At this moment I am working on a domain where there is only 1 DC, running
Windows 2008 Standard and 7 clients (4 XPs, 3 Vistas). The DC is the DNS
server.

Sing Chung

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