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eventid 11156 registered with some errors
Got this error when I started my windows 2003 server
When I saw the event viewer I got message as "The system failed to register pointer (PTR) resource records for the network adapter....." with ...
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Setup for a DNS Server?
Our DNS is being hosted by someone at the State Department of Education. They told me to just set up the DNS with forwarders. Do I also need to set up a forward lookup zone? Our goal is use this with ...
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DNS answer based on IP address
I'm running a Windows Server 2003 as a DNS server. I'd like to set up a DNS zone so that the given answer is different depending of the requester's IP address. Let's say I have the zone example.com. ...
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Windows server 2003 randomly stop responding
We have a Windows2003 server machine that runs AD and is the only domain controller. In the last few days it started to act strangely. It can be accessed from outside via RDP, but it's mostly ...
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How to stop Host (A) records from being auto-created
I have a server with a few IPs. I only want ONE Host (A) record to point from its name to one IP, and not to any of the others, which I am using other names for.
I'm not sure what triggers it, but I ...
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How does Apache 2.2 know about my server's second IP, and how can I hide it?
My server has two IP addresses, and I want two Apache services listening to each one separately. The DNS has this:
a CNAME alias pointing 'intranet' to servername
a Host (A) record pointing ...
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Multi-IP server: how do programs know which IP to use?
I recently tried adding second IP address to our server for various reasons and found that now when I check netstat -anob there are many programs/services listening and establishing connections to ...
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How to forward missing DNS names of an existing zone in Windows DNS server?
I have setup DNS records for a public domain (say example.com) in my public DNS provider. Among the records, there are some A records of the type *.production.code.example.com that point to a specific ...
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Moving from mod_rewrite/muliple ports on one IP to just multiple IPs
We have one server and want to run multiple versions of our in-house intranet app and have them be accessible through a web browser by their name, without a port number.
This is our current setup: In ...
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1answer
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Host name resolution order - Changes to SYSTEM.INI not reflecting
I added the below lines to my system.ini file to ensure that all host name resolution will happen through hosts file only and all other methods are ignored.
[DNS]
HostsPriority=1
But, the change ...
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Networking and wireless router help
I have 2 questions that I`ve been hitting my head on
We have a network with 24 users. The network is behind a sonic wall and are server is behind the sonic wall with the rest of the network
Are ...
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I keep getting this when typing in nslookup. I`m also having problems connect desktops to domain
I`m trying to connect a server my current domain. So far I just have server 2003 on the system with no roles. This server will act as a backup or a application server in the future.
My other server ...
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Client will not join domain
I have run into a rather strange problem concerning remote installation. We are setting up a training environment with server 2003 and XP clients using WDS with a homegrown automated installation ...
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1answer
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DNS Scavenging - “This zone can be scavenged after” time stamp missing
I am setting up DNS scavenging on a Windows 2003 server. When I go to set up scavenging on a zone the "This zone can be scavenged after" time stamp box is blank and not editable. Is this intended ...
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1answer
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Cannot join Computers to windows server 2003 Domain
I am a complete beginner in server management, however am put in a situation to manage our companies server running windows 2003. The person before me completely screwed up tons of stuff in this ...
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DNS, DHCP, FILESERVER transition from W2003 to W2008R2 DC's
We have a stable Windows 2003 Standard network.
W2003 DC1 on x.x.x.10 - DC, DNS, DHCP, FILESERVER
We are upgrading the network, and have a second server Windows 2008 R2 ready for insertion.
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NETLOGON Warning Event ID 5781
I have Server 2003 SP2 Standard Edition. This past week it has been logging an event called NETLOGON Warning 5781 at various times of the day. When this happens client computers lose access to the AD ...
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How can i get the total records in my DNS Server
I'll need to count all the records in a dns server 2008, for all the zones configured on the server, by running a script locally
Thanks,
aca
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Windows Server 2003 not loading web pages by domain, but loads/pings by IP (Server not found) [closed]
It's really weird and randomly started happening..
Example:
I open firefox or IE on the server and try to load "google.com". It doesn't load. Pinging it doesn't work either.
However, if it use the ...
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1answer
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two domains, one LAN, two DNS server, 3 problems
Background:
we have 150 users using AD on domain ABC. Windows 2003.
that serverDC1 has a DNS, DHCP roles, and there is serverDC2 which is its live DNS backup. logs seem healthy.
then we chose to ...
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Windows Server 2003 DNS Server Timing out
Having a problem with a Windows Server 2003.
It's the DNS server for the local LAN it forwards requests to "8.8.4.4" and has been working fine for years. Now today all external DNS requests are ...
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How to give Domain Name to IPs in an Intranet Network
I Know this is a Common topic here but I'm still confused.
I have a Windows Server 2003 DHCP/App Server Machine with DNS configured. The Clients are Lubuntu 12.04 Systems.
I want to host my PHP ...
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Setting up a subdomain in IIS?
I have an existing site that I would like to add a staging subdomain to. I created a new web site for it in IIS, added a host header for subdomain.mysite.com but when I try to get to the subdomain it ...
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Reduce Windows DNS Service caching on Window
I'm struggling with DNS caching issues on a Windows based LAN.
I've noticed that if I change a DNS record on a domain hosted by a 3rd party nameserver, that I always seem to be the very last person ...
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DNS Issue - Windows 2003 environment
Odd issue and I'm not having much luck with ole google (perhaps I'm not looking in the right direction).
Hoping to get a little help with that here from some of you.
On our network we have approx. ...
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multiply websites and different websites on the same iis server [closed]
I've got this kind of situation: I've got windows 2003 server with dns server on same machine. It is binded to adress for ex. siteA.com Now i want to add to this machine website which name will be ...
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The DNS server encountered an invalid DNS update message from [IP-address]
I have a bunch of messages like this in DNS Server log.
I've already changed Name checking setting to All Names for this server, but messages still appear, but less frequently.
It's an ...
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Is DHCP required on a Win2003 secondary DNS server?
We have a secondary DNS server and we've been noticing that the DNS.exe process is getting rather large. (Like, rebooting the server large.)
I read something somewhere that 2k3 has two relevant ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to force A-record removal in DNS from client server?
Is it possible to initiate deleting of DNS A and PTR records in DNS from member server?
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Certain clients (IP range) can not ping server
I just virtualized a Windows 2003 Server SP2 x32. The server contained our help desk server (Spiceworks) and our anti virus management server (ESET RAC). The host computer actually contained the ...
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DNS A-record registration for client machines does not work
I have Forward Lookup Zone domainname1.domainname2.com which is AD-integrated zone.
Dynamic updates is set to Nonsecure and secure.
At the same time, there's Reverse Lookup zone on the same server, ...
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Server 2003 can ping by host name but can only browse shares by IP
So I have Windows Server 2003 and I'm running into a weird issue.
Using XP or Win 7 machines I cannot browse the shares using the servers hostname
\\SERVER\
I get this error
"The network location ...
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1answer
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Windows Server 2003 DNS not resolving internal and external domains for clients
I'm attempting to setup an AD Domain in Amazon's EC2 Cloud. I have several EC2 instances running inside a VPC. Security Groups are configured to allow all traffic from the subnet the instances are on.
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Unable to Mange DNS via MMC
When trying to access the DNS service on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Build 3790) domain controller/schema master via the MMC DNS snap in or locally via the DNS MMC from Administrative tools I'm ...
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2answers
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Windows 2003 and 2008 AD integrated DNS zones
We have a Windows 2003 server DC1 which is our primary DC holding all FSMO roles. It also is a DNS server for our domain domain.local which is an active directory integrated zone.
We also have a ...
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1answer
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Moving SharePoint to new server but retaining hostname
I am trying to make WSS3 accessible on a new server. Currently it resides on a Win2003 SBS server. I have migrated to a Win2008 R2 server, but I am having difficulty accessing the site outside the ...
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MSDCS zone missing
I seem to have an issue with our AD/DNS, the structure looks like:
but the BPA gives me an error:
Issue:
The Active Directory integrated DNS zone _msdcs.<domain> was not found.
Impact:
DNS ...
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DNS forwarding *.xyz to specific dns server
We're running a windows 2003 Active Directory server, and I need to forward certain types of internal dns requests to a specific dns server which we are accessing over vpn.
eg.
*.ods
*.companyname
...
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Primary DNS server removed, can I change secondary to primary?
The primary server had DNS accidentally removed. Now the secondary server can not load the zone. Can I switch the secondary server from a secondary zone to a primary zone?
Secondary is NT3 and ...
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Active Directory Users in a group to use different DNS forwarder settings
We have a Windows Server 2003 AD DC running here in our office, and I was wondering if it's possible to group some employees to use a specific DNS forwarder, and some to use a different forwarder? I ...
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Nustar DNS doesn't send NS record for sub zones. Is this correct behavior?
I have these domains:
company.com
a.company.com
b.company.com
c.company.com
Sub domains "a" and "b" are under the same zone of company.com in the GUI (albeit with an extra dot in the hostname ...
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1answer
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Plesk DNS not redirecting
I need to migrate my email server to a new machine, but the Plesk settings aren't having any effect.
Current setup:
Windows Server 2003 on ProHosters (VM, holds the current mail server and all the ...
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PTR records not been created and/or updated
Windows domain, domain and forest functional levels at Windows Server 2003. Windows 2003 and 2008R2 domain controllers. Same for DNS (AD integrated). Dynamic updates on DNS zones are set to "Secure ...
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How do I get Windows Domain Controller and Ubuntu dnsmasq to play nicely?
I've inherited "ownership" of a network which has a Windows 2003 Server running as a Domain Controller and file server (no IIS or DNS running). We also use an Ubuntu server running dnsmasq as an ...
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Event ID 4013: “The DNS server is waiting for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to signal…"
We have an issue that only occurs after we rebooting our secondary DC and DNS server/DHCP server. It is a 2008r2 x64 server, DC and DNS/DHCP server. Our main DC is 2003.
Event ID 4013:
“The ...
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DNS stopped registering clients
We have 3 Windows 2003 domain controllers each is a DNS server. We are set up to use single label domain names; the Registry settings per Microsoft have been made to the domain controllers / DNS ...
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1answer
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Public DNS redirect subdomain to Windows Server 2003 DNS
I'm a programmer by trade but often dabble in sysadmin tasks and responsibilities. I have recently been tasked with setting up a Windows Server 2003 networking environment for a small business with ...
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WINS Server interfering with DNS?
First of all, many apologies for my lack of knowledge in managing an active directory, but our network is a bit outdated and I don't necessarily have been trained in the field, however I'm the IT. We ...
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2answers
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DNS entry outside of zone
I'm trying to create a static DNS entry (Windows 2003) to a server outside my network. Server is on a different subnet which does not show up as a zone on my DNS server. Would I be better off just ...
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Cache updates when migrating DNS from one provider to another
This may be a Windows DNS specific question or a general DNS best practice question - I'm not sure!
We migrated our 3rd party DNS provision from provider A to provider B.
I noticed that our internal ...
