For the past months I have found that our domain controllers "lose" their DNS
registrations with each other regularly. It has not had a sever impact as
clients have no issues communicating with DCs or DNS servers. Running a
dcdiag will always result in full successes, however, a netdiag /q will
result in the following (on most, if not all domain controllers in the
enterprise):
C:\>netdiag /q
..........................................
Computer Name: DC1
DNS Host Name: DC1.company.com
System info : Windows 2000 Server (Build 3790)
Processor : x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
List of installed hotfixes :
KB911564
KB921503
KB924667-v2
KB925398_WMP64
KB925902
KB926122
KB927891
KB929123
KB930178
KB931768
KB931784
KB932168
KB933566
KB933729
KB933854
KB935839
KB935840
KB935966
KB936021
KB936357
KB936782
KB937143
KB938127
KB939653
KB941202
KB941568
KB941644
KB941672
KB942615
KB943460
KB943485
Q147222
Per interface results:
Adapter : Local Area Connection
Host Name. . . . . . . . . : DC1
IP Address . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.252
Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway. . . . . . : 192.168.0.249
Primary WINS Server. . . . : 192.168.0.252
Secondary WINS Server. . . : 192.168.1.251
Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.252
Global results:
DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed
[WARNING] The DNS entries for this DC are not registered correctly on
DNS server '192.168.0.252'
.. Please wait for 30 minutes for DNS server replication.
[FATAL] No DNS servers have the DNS records for this DC registered.
IP Security test . . . . . . . . . : Skipped
The command completed successfully
The problem is resolved after issuing "netdiag /fix". Any ideas why this
happens every couple of days? Is it related to DNS scavenging? Our domain
controllers and DNS servers will have static entries in DNS so I can't see
DNS scavenging affecting this.
Any help appreciated.
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