On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Michael Tavares <[email protected]> wrote:
> What happens if you edit the host file and remove the entry for ::1 on > the server that is having the issue? > The hosts file has that line commented out already ... I suppose I can enable it ... > > > Mike > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Michael Leone > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:57 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] DFSDIAG warnings - IP with conflicting site > associations > > > > I am about to demote another Win2008 R2 DC, so I ran "dfsdiag /testdcs" > first. And on this server, it starts to validate the site associations of > this server. And it says: > > > > The server has IP address with conflicting site associations. > > > > Host IP address Subnet-SiteMapping in AD > > ::1 No mapping exists > > > > > > Now, isn't ::1 the IPv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1? I'm not using IPv6, and > in fact it is unchecked in the network connection properties. And I don't > see this error when I do that command on the 2 other servers (which also > don't have IPv6). > > > > I'm guessing that it thinks I need a subnet in Sites and Services, but I > don't know why (or where) it's finding that ::1 at all ... Nor why the 2 > other servers in this same site are *not* showing this error, even when > querying the problematical server. There's just the 1 NIC, and I am not > using a VPN (which might be assigning an IP). > > > > Web searches have been less than fruitful ... Event log of this server > shows nothing about DFS warnings or errors. > > > > I don't want to create an IPv6 subnet, as I don't plan on using IPv6. Is > it safe to just ignore this? (most especially since I am about to demote > it, and since there are no other DFS namespaces besides Domain System > Volume, and the 2 other servers don't show the error) > > > > ADDENDUM: now DFSDIAG /testreferral is telling me there are stale entries > and to restart the service on all DCs. Yet that same command does *not* > show stale entries on the other DCs in the domain ... > > > > <SIGH> > > > > Oh, well. It's still just the test domain, I will restart all 3 DCs, and > do something else for a few minutes while they come back up and hopefully > sync ... > > > > > > >
