The sites and subnet are configured correctly, as matter of fact during the promotion to DC it automatically detected the correct site it belonged in.
and all replication is working now > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:07:45 -0400 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Polling wrong DC-FIXED- Kind of > To: [email protected] > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:50 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > > I really would still like to know why it would only attempt to contact the > > DC in site5 as opposed to the DNS server's that I specified (HQ Servers) on > > the nic card. > > DNS != AD > > It may have been looking up the Active Directory domain's info using > the DNS servers at HQ... and then using that info to contact a DC at > site 5. > > Unless you've defined *all* your IP nets properly in AD Sites and > Services, the AD client will not know which site/DC is closest. > > -- Ben > >
