[ActiveDir] DC Can't Handle DNS Pointed to Self

[Noah Eiger]

Hello:   This is sort of a follow up to two recent postings. Any thoughts are welcome as I have now been trying to figure this one out for about a week.   I have DC running as a virtual machine under (host W2k3 SP1 w/ VS 2005 R2; guest: W2k3 ENT R2). This machine was recently promoted. When its local DNS points to itself, the machine does not logon to the domain. It appears to not even know about itself. No one can get to it because it loads the non-domain firewall GPO (enabling the full firewall).   When I point DNS across the WAN, it loads – though interestingly it does not become visible on the network until I log into it (via the VS management tools). I can then log out and it stays visible. It then appears to function correctly.   Any thoughts greatly appreciated.   -- nme -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/399 - Release Date: 7/25/2006