DNS in a lab environ...

[pmcdou2]

Hello,

I recently dcpromo'd a member server on my network. So
now, it has AD and a DC/GC installed on it. I took it
off the network and placed it in my lab and installed
DNS. DNS said it installed with an error but installed
nonetheless. I fifured the error message was because
there was no more communications with the original PDC.
I seized all roles, elminated all traces of old DNS
servers and DCs. But when I go to the DNS MMC, it says,
DNS is not configured. I open it up and see the forward
and reverse zones that were the production environ. What
gives, the lab box says it's the Start of Authority.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Phil.

 

[Larry Stotler]

Hello,

When you DCPromoed the box it completed replication from the domain.
Evidently the DNS zone for your domain was active directory integrated. In
this case the DNS zones would be replicated to all of the DC's regardles if
they were running DNS. So after you installed DNS it just pulled up the
DNS zones that it already had.

If your goal is to have a lab box with only its own information in it here
is a method to do this. You can delete the zones and make sure the zone
files ae not stored in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Dns folder. Then recreate
the DNS zone manually. Make sure that the DC is pointing only to itself
for DNS and then run the following commands to have the server register all
of the SRV records for the domain;

ipconfig /flushdns
Net stop netlogon
Net start netlogon


Larry Stotler, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support

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