DNS

[Guest]

I have AD integrated DNS on my win2003 network, and when one of the DNS
servers goes down, i lose internet connectivity all together... i assumed the
second DNS server would handle DNS, being that DNS is AD integrated..... how
do i go about fixing this?..

thanks

 

[Frankster]

Perhaps the DNS is working but you have not configured DHCP on both DCs?

What do you mean by "i lose internet connectivity all together..."? Do you
have an IP assigned?

-Frank

 

[Frankster]

Also... are the cleints configured for both for DNS?

-Frank

 

[Guest]

sorry, i was to vague..... when the main DC goes down, the client pc's are
not able to get the the internet..... (I have the these two dns servers
configured in dhcp) I assumed that AD integrated DNS meant that i wouldnt
need to install dns on the other domain controllers...

thanks

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

sorry, i was to vague..... when the main DC goes down, the client
pc's are not able to get the the internet..... (I have the these
two dns servers configured in dhcp) I assumed that AD integrated DNS
meant that i wouldnt need to install dns on the other domain
controllers...

You still need to install DNS, the AD integrated zones will replicate.

 

[Guest]

yes pointing to the primary and seconday... I thought that would take care of
the issue too... guess not...

 

[Guest]

would would it make sense to call the zone on the second server the same
name as the zone on the first server? what is best practice?...

thank you..

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

would would it make sense to call the zone on the second server the
same name as the zone on the first server?

DO NOT manually add zones on DCs if the same zone exists on another DC in
the domain.

what is best practice?...

You will not need to and should not create any zones if it is a DC and there
are other DCs in the same domain with AD integrated zones.
The AD integrated zones will replicate as soon as the DNS service is
installed. Though, it may take a few minutes for the zones to appear in the
console.

 

[Guest]

DO NOT manually add zones on DCs if the same zone exists on another DC in
the domain.

what is best practice?...

You will not need to and should not create any zones if it is a DC and there
are other DCs in the same domain with AD integrated zones.
The AD integrated zones will replicate as soon as the DNS service is
installed. Though, it may take a few minutes for the zones to appear in the
console.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

On you previous message you say to create another zone.... here you
are saying NOT to manually add....... what should i do?

I did not say to create a zone, I said "install DNS and the AD integrated
zones will replicate"

I'm afraid you've confused installing the DNS service with creating zones.
These are two different things.

 

[Guest]

just install the DNS service, and that's it?......cool..

thanks.

 

[Guest]

"You still need to install DNS, the AD integrated zones will replicate"

once done is it normal for the "new" DNS server to say "Configure a DNS
server " if you click server with in the mmc DNS snap???
Cheers