Aha!

I didn't stop and start the DNS service. I thought I had, but only did
it on the non-FSMO role holder.

All now works...

Kurt

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:03, Richard Stovall
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What do you get from:
>
> nslookup wpad.mycompany.com dcwithfsmoroles.mycompany.com
> and
> nslookup wpad.mycompany.com anotherDNSserver.mycompany.com
>
> What DNS server is the problematic one pointed to?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:48 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Weird DNS issue I can't figure out
>
> First things first - I can't ping the name, wpad.mycompany.com from
> the DC that holds the FSMO roles.
>
> Once I've got that figured, I'll tackle the rest.
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:05, Joseph L. Casale
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What do the logs say about the request?
>> That'll go a long way in diagnosing the issue.
>> Do you have the mime type set, does the webserver get the request formatted 
>> as you expected, _and_ server it back?
>> IIRC, ff doesn’t look for a proxy by default...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:49 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: Weird DNS issue I can't figure out
>>
>> I put in an A record - I have a separate web site just for this.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:41, Joseph L. Casale
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> What type of dns entry did you make?
>>> I made a cname for mine to `wpad -> fqdn.server.local.` then just put a 
>>> wpad.dat in the root of the default site on that server (this way I could 
>>> move it transparently by only adjusting the cname if need be...)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:36 AM
>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>> Subject: Weird DNS issue I can't figure out
>>>
>>> I'm trying to implement WPAD in our US office, and think I've got it
>>> mostly covered, except for one thing.
>>>
>>> On our main IIS box I've configured a web site called wpad, and set up
>>> a static entry in DNS on the main DC yesterday to point to it.
>>>
>>> I can't ping by name, but if I do a 'ping -a 12.34.56.78' I get the
>>> name resolution just fine.
>>>
>>> I see an 6268 event in the DNS event log that seems relevant, but not
>>> much information about it, after having visited http://eventid.net -
>>> the one comment there said something about a TXT entry, but I've
>>> searched and found only one reference to wpad.mycompany.com in DNS, no
>>> TXT or other files at all with that name.
>>>
>>> I can't even ping it from the DC running DNS.
>>>
>>> What's even more weird is that I can ping it by name from our foreign
>>> offices - this is probably something I'll need to do something about
>>> later...
>>>
>>> Anyone know what the heck is going on?
>>>
>>> Kurt
>>>
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