RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Issues

[Kingslan, Rick T.]

Russ,   At the forest root DNS servers, enable forwarding and point these forwarders to your ISP DNS.  The root hints are really not that reliable in the case that you are currently using them.  Making use of an established DNS system is much more robust than using the root hints at your root DNS.   Rick Kingslan Windows Server – Directory Services MVP   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] DNS Issues   Since changing our DNS design from forwarding to our old firewall which had root-hints built into it, to forwarding our DNS to our empty forest root domain controllers with the root-hints on them, we are not getting all our DNS lookups.   For example, http://www.volksbanksalzburg.at right now is not resolving for us.  Yet if we RDP into one of our home PCs, it resolves fine.  So my question is, is there anything weird about Windows 2000 root-hints or DNS servers that would cause us to not be able to look up some hostnames properly in DNS?  Or what would cause this issue? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~