id 4004 events and recursive test failures.

[Brenden]

Hi guys

Im having strange problems with sbs 2k. Im having intermittant problems with
DNS.

If I nslookup any external address www.apple.com I get failure from our dns
server without a resolution from the forwarders.
event id 4004 is recorded which is "DNS_EVENT_DS_ZONE_ENUM_FAILED"
but microsoft offer no guidance on resolution. I also note on the monitoring
tab a simple test passes but a recursive test fails. Any guidance for
resolution or trouble shooting steps to isolate the problem would be
welcome.

regards
Brenden

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

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Hi guys

Im having strange problems with sbs 2k. Im having
intermittant problems with DNS.

If I nslookup any external address www.apple.com I get
failure from our dns server without a resolution from the
forwarders.
event id 4004 is recorded which is
"DNS_EVENT_DS_ZONE_ENUM_FAILED"
but microsoft offer no guidance on resolution. I also
note on the monitoring tab a simple test passes but a
recursive test fails. Any guidance for resolution or
trouble shooting steps to isolate the problem would be
welcome.

DNS should not log 4004 events for resolving www.apple.com 4004 events are
logged when DNS cannot load a zone from Active Directory. So, unless you
have a www.apple.com zone in DNS that is stored in Active Directory I don't
know how it is related.
4004 events are generally logged at start up if you only have one DC and a
zone is stored in Active Directory. If DNS starts and AD has not started yet
so, DNS cannot load the zone from AD until AD has started. You can resolve
this by either making the zone a standard primary so the zone info is stored
in text format in the %systemroot%\system32\dns directory, or by configuring
a second DC with DNS installed and configuring each DC to use the other then
itself for DNS.
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=4004&eventno=334&source=DNS&phase=1