DNS won't configure

[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

 

[igor]

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

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

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