DNS or Active directory prob?

[Steve P]

My customer has one SBS 2000 server & a Windows 2000
server for file sharing. About 1am, the Win2000 server
DNS event log started logging event 4016 & 4004, one of
which is replicated below. I was unable to logon to the
server remotely or locally & ended up having to hard
restart the server. Upon reboot, everything was back to
normal.

Any ideas what could possibly cause Active directory to
stop communications between the 2 servers?

"The DNS server timed out attempting an Active Directory
service operation on
DC=RootDNSServers,cn=MicrosoftDNS,cn=System,DC=dfs,DC=com.
Check Active Directory to see that it is functioning
properly. The event data contains the error. "

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Steve,

I might post this in the SBS2000 News Group as well.

However, please take a look at the following links from
http://www.eventid.net as possible leads to a solution to your problem:

http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=4016&eventno=1632&source=DNS&phase=1
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=4004&eventno=334&source=DNS&phase=1

I might also look at the ntfrs service.

HTH,

Cary