Re: Global Catalog / Domain Controller loses connection to Exchang

In news:75C76E9E-324C-4082-BCC0-B499E8B60FE5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Chris Baldassano <ChrisBaldassano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated, which I
commented on below:
Woah, holy macarol... Let me add a few things cause im not doin all
that yet...

The secondary NIC's in the servers are ALWAYS Disabled. No wires
plugged in and Disabled in control panel. No IP's associated to
them. I only turned it on to see if it would ping , which it did.

Now i have a netgear firewall that has built in VPN Endpoint, so im
ok with turning that off.

Every PC in the company only has the 192.168.1.3 ip in the DNS
config, which points to our DNS Server (file2k3)

I would imagine the IP Routing is on because of the VPN portion of the
server. I am not so familiar with the RRAS and turning it all off
then i have to fix the peoples VPN COnnection from their homes.

Aside from hardware failure... the thing i am trying to resolve..
cause i think it has gotten lost in translation here..

Mail2k3 stops pinging File2k3. File2k3 can still ping Mail2k3.
Outlook
slows to a crawl with the popup "Outlook is waiting for the server
yadda yadda" because mail2k3 cant see file2k3 i guess... File shares
on mail2k3 to file2k3 Work perfectly.

File 2k3 is our Primary DC and GC. Web2k3 is the other DC. They sync
perfectly.

If i reboot File2k3, then mail2k3 can ping it again just fine for a
few
hours ot 30 mins, then it stops again...

I see a bunch of connections in a Time_wait, or whatever state it was
i posted.. It seems like file2k3 is not ending the proper
transmissions and reopening the port. Bothup to the latest service
packs etc....

Now tommorow I will post some event log, maybe it will help.

The event logs will help.

SInce this is a DC, RRAS causes issues. THe articles I provided as part of
that info show that. Why not use the Netgear firewall, if it has VPN
support, as the VPN server for your folks?

Ace


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