DNS won't configure

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Graeme

I recently had to rebuild one of the domains within the
company. When I went to configure the DNS, however, I
found that I couldn't get it to work properly. In the
Forward Lookup Zones, the domain is registered but the
_msdcs, _sites, _tcp and _udp folders are all missing. On
the same level as the Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones,
there is a folder called Cached Lookups, which contains
a .(dot) zone. I understand that I should delete this to
enable forwarding (which is what I want to do) but there
is no Delete option when I right click on it. I have
tried stopping and starting the Netlogon service but it
did no good. Can anyone offer me any assistance?

Best wishes
Graeme
 
Did you create an AD integrated zone or just forward lookup zone?
You also might want to run dcdiag /fix from support folder on Win2000 cdrom.
Also, try from support folder doing: DnsCmd <yourservername> /ClearCache
 
Igor,

I have always used netdiag /fix to do this. Another way is to run net stop
netlogon, followed by ipconfig /flushdns, followed by ipconfig /registerdns
and then net start netlogon. But, if dcdiag /fix works more power to us
all!

Cary
 
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