Dude,
You don't need to remind us how flaky Microsoft products are. We know.
:)
-Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Pillow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SP5 & DNS
> Upgrade to SP6. If you went from SP3 to SP5, the error would not have
occurred (seems SP4 was more buggy than the stuff it fixed). SP6 fixes most
of the errors going from SP4 to SP5. Thanks Microsoft...
>
> Yes, I use MS DNS. My shop is an MCSP, and I'm an MCP, and my techs are
MCSE's, so if I'm telling you the Microsoft product is flaky, you can rest
assured it is. If anybody would take up for them, I would. Yes, I avoided
SP4 and don't have this error. On any new machine that comes in with NT
(since NT4.0 w/SP4 is the OEM version shipping), I format the hard drive,
and install NT4.0. Then upgrade to SP3, then SP5 or SP6. No errors, and it's
stable. Avoid SP4 like the plague. If you are on an SP4 machine, and are
using MS DNS, good luck, because you'll need it eventually.
>
> If the SP6 upgrade doesn't do the trick, get rid of (uninstall) the MS DNS
service, and re-install it. Then apply SP6 again.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Anthony Poisson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:30:13 -0400
>
> >That seems to be what the article I enclosed earlier seems to suggest.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >Why not just upgrade to SP6a?
> >
> >Bill
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Please forgive that this is really an NT question, but it is directly
> >related to what I am trying to do with Imail.
> >
> >I am in the process of getting the perl script subscribe1.pl for Imail
from
> >imailsrv2.pl
> >on the utilities page working. The script is not what I am writing about
> >however.
> >
> >This required the installation of a more recent version of Perl (which I
> >did) which requires an upgrade on our part from (NT 4.0) SP4 to SP5.
Which
> >I did but then M$ DNS stopped working. After rebooting there was an error
> >in Event Viewer that "The Microsoft DNS service terminated with the
> >following error: The data is invalid."
> >
> >The zone files were still there and I was able to uninstall SP5 and DNS
is
> >working again. The same server is our internal DNS server for our network
> >so this is a problem.
> >And there is some urgency in getting these mailing lists active.
> >
> >Has anyone run into this before? I tried searching Microsoft Technet
Online
> >Support but didn't get anywhere. If anyone can offer any suggestions it
> >would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-Len
>
>
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> Keith Pillow, CTO
> Sylvan Information Services, Inc.
> www.sylvaninfo.net
> 84 Main Street Warsaw, Virginia 22572
>
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