Hi,

I have one machine installed W2k (AD) with DNS on the same,
and i want to hook this machine to my cable network, what
is see is while server is booting it takes more that 20
minutes to give me the logon screen.
When i looked at the event logs it tells me that dynamic
DNS registration failed because the DNS (Cable network)
has refused to register.. i had tried to configure the W2k
server tcp/ip setting with 127.0.0.1 as the dns server but
it does't take it.

How to configure the w2k server to look for self the dns
registration ?

I can't give the current ip because, our cable dhcp will
change the ip every 15 days or so..

appreciate any help

127.0.0.1 is automatically set up when TCP/IP is installed.

Not sure what you mean by cable network, but it sounds
like you're talking about connecting to the Internet through
a Cable television ISP.

How's your network setup? Do you have something like a
router/switch combo that assigns IP's to every system on
your network? Or are you using the AD server to assign
DHCP to the rest of the network? And how many network
cards are set up in the server?

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"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have one machine installed W2k (AD) with DNS on the same,
> and i want to hook this machine to my cable network, what
> is see is while server is booting it takes more that 20
> minutes to give me the logon screen.
> When i looked at the event logs it tells me that dynamic
> DNS registration failed because the DNS (Cable network)
> has refused to register.. i had tried to configure the W2k
> server tcp/ip setting with 127.0.0.1 as the dns server but
> it does't take it.
>
> How to configure the w2k server to look for self the dns
> registration ?
>
> I can't give the current ip because, our cable dhcp will
> change the ip every 15 days or so..
>
> appreciate any help

In news:05a001c34c08$2cf2b9e0$(E-Mail Removed),
Dave <(E-Mail Removed)> posted his concerns then I replied down below:
> Hi,
>
> I have one machine installed W2k (AD) with DNS on the same,
> and i want to hook this machine to my cable network, what
> is see is while server is booting it takes more that 20
> minutes to give me the logon screen.
> When i looked at the event logs it tells me that dynamic
> DNS registration failed because the DNS (Cable network)
> has refused to register.. i had tried to configure the W2k
> server tcp/ip setting with 127.0.0.1 as the dns server but
> it does't take it.
>
> How to configure the w2k server to look for self the dns
> registration ?
>
> I can't give the current ip because, our cable dhcp will
> change the ip every 15 days or so..
>
> appreciate any help

Dave,

Remove all references of the cable company's DNS Ip addresses. Use yours
only. YOu can't type in 127.0.0.1 because it's not a valid IP and the
machine tells you that with the error. Use your own DNS server address. It
needs to be a static IP and not a DHCP address or you'll have problems. If
behind a Linksys, then I assume it's being NAT'd and you have a static IP.
If using the actual cable IP, then that is NOT good. Purchase a cheapo
Linksys Cable/DSL router. IT works wonders in what you're trying to do.
Besides, you can add mutliple machines if you have one of them, upto 253
machines.

Use your own DNS server only. AD requires this. If using some other DNS,
*errors galore!*. To get Internet access, use the Root hints, or more
efficient, use a forwarder, as shown how to here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300202.

Then all the "long" logons and other errors will disappear.


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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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