RE: Strange Irregular DNS/Networking Problems

After reading lots of articles on networking issues with Vista I tried
disabling IPV6 and everything seems to work properly now.

The network is a lot more responsive and doesn't stop working when I try to
launch certain applications.
The speed of file copies from vista machines is still shockingly slow (SP1
machines) although not XP machines but apart from that removing IPV6 from the
2008 domain controllers and workstations seems to have fixed the issue.

As another point when I tried to join a Windows 7 PDC beta machine to the
domain the network would stop working everytime I tried to log in with a
roaming profile but with IPV6 disabled it works as normal.

I'm not sure if the problem is related more with my networking hardware or
Vista's implementation of IPV6 but am just extremely pleased I have resolved
this after many months of frustrating network problems where nothing "seemed"
to be wrong.

What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks
Robin


"robinwilson16" wrote:

Unfortunately the problem is still occuring.
I tried launching Firefox on a client and it stopped the whole network on
all the machines. Firefox doesn't even load although it shows as running in
processes.
After resetting the domain controller and booting up things are back to
normal.

I am trying to copy 8GB of files across the network at the moment and it is
copying at around 260KB which I would feel was too slow if I was downloading
the files from the internet. I get 16Mbits from the internet.

How do I find out what is causing all these problems?
I tried swapping the switch and unplugging everything apart from the PC and
the domain controller and tried copying the files again but it made no
difference.
One switch is 1 gbit and the other is 100 mbits.
I also tried restarting the domain controller and the pc again.

The speed starts at around 5Mbits and then drops gradually to 260kbits.
The normal switch is a managed switch and it shows no errors.

Could the problem be dns related?
When the problem is bad the DFS share actually becomes unobtainable.

Thanks
Robin

"robinwilson16" wrote:

Thanks for the help.
I have made the changes and will let you know if it resolves the problem.
The easiest way is to try running Firefox! I will wait for the DNS changes to
propogate first.

I was already using the server for DHCP.

Will let you know how it goes.
Thanks
Robin

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

Hello robinwilson16,

Yes, let the router only do it's routing job nothing else. FORWARDERS set
on the DNS server. If you use also the router for DHCP remove it and stop
DHCP on the router. This is also better to run on the server.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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At the moment the requests get forwarded to the router which then
deals with forwarding the requests on to the ISPs name servers.

Would it be best to remove the router from there and put in the ISPs
name servers instead?

Thanks
Robin
"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

Hello robinwilson16,

The router should not be set there, or do you use it for any DNS
services?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Sorry the router is in as a forwarder and my previous comment saying
the router was not specified is incorrect.

Robin

"robinwilson16" wrote:

Hello Meinolf

I have double checked the DNS settings and only internal dns
servers
are
being used.
I allow only secure updates
The start of authority is the domain controller
The name server is the domain controller
WINS is not being used
Zone transfers are only allowed to name servers
I do have a TAPI3Directory which I don't normally see on other
domains. What is that used for?
I use TCP/IP V4 for the network and nothing in DNS points to any
external IPs or addresses or even the router. Is this correct?

Thanks for the help
Robin
"Meinolf Weber" wrote:
Hello robinwilson16,

Make sure that you use only domain internal DNS servers in the
domain and no externals, except as a Forwarder on the DNS server
properties in DNS management console. Do you use networking over
TCP/IP or is it disabled? WINS server?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I forgot to mention that rebooting the domain controller will fix
the problem (until the next time it occurs)




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