Re: DNS Server Service

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From: David Jones [MSFT] (dajones_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:02:52 -0800

Hi Mark,

Are there any other errors before the snippet you posted in the ICW log?
There should be a line about Starting the DNS service earlier in the log,
did that return an error?
Also, are there any errors from the DNS service itself in either the
Application, System, or DNS Server event logs?
You're able to start the service manually after ICW errors out, is that
correct? Does it stay started, or does it stop after a bit again?
So I'm clear, this is SBS without ISA, but with 2 NIC's, and you have a
hardware router as your Internet connection, is that correct?

Finally, after this error, what is the startup type of the DNS Server
service - Automatic, Manual, or Disabled?

Thanks!

David Jones
SBS Product Team 

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"Mark Baker" <markbakerATsofthomeDOTnet> wrote in message
news:eDO9fsZAEHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi All-
>     My DNS Service keeps stopping.  The problem came about because about a
> week ago I stopped being able establish a remote session to the server via
> RWW.  RWW works OK otherwise (I can establish a connection to
> https://www.domainname.com/remote) just no remote control.  So I thought
I'd
> just go in tonight and reboot.  When the server restarted, I got an error
> that DNS had stopped unexpectedly.  So I restarted it and it seemed OK.
> Then I thought I'd rerun CEICW and see if that cleared up my other
problem,
> only it craps out at configuring network.  Here is the pertinent part of
the
> icwlog.txt file:
>
> <snip>
> Call to Clearing the default gateway on the LAN NIC () returned ok.
> Call to Clearing the default gateway on the external NIC () returned ok.
> Call to Setting default gateway on the external NIC () returned ok.
> Error 0x800706ba returned from call to Setting DNS forwarders().
> Error 0x800706ba returned from call to CNetCommit::DoRouter().
> Error 0x800706ba returned from call to Configuring for router
connection().
> Error 0x800706ba returned from call to CNetCommit::Common().
> Error 0x800706ba returned from call to CNetCommit::Commit().
> calling CRFireCommit::CommitEx (0xcfca28).
> calling CRFireCommit::ValidatePropertyBag (0xcfca28).
> Call to CRFireCommit::ValidatePropertyBag () returned ok.
> <snip>
>
> Every time I run CEICW, it stops the DNS service.  And I'm also getting
> emails every 15 mins. that DNS has stopped. (I have it configured to
restart
> automatically.)  I know that Error 0x800706ba has to do with RPC, but
other
> than that, I don't know where to go.  The errors in the event log aren't
> very helpful to me, but I could post them if need be.  I'm posting this
from
> home so I don't have access to them right now.  Help!
>
> Mark
>
>

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