NSLOOKUP error

[William Rowland]

After promoting Win 2K Server to DC, AD, GPO's etc works
great. After a few minutes, unable to access GP tab on
OU's, Domain server etc. When I run nslookup>domain it
returns "non-existent domain". I have verified all IP
addresses, Host records, LDAP and DC name and IP, PTR
records. I am thinking this issue is a corupted server
installation. I know when I demote and promote a new
sysvol folder is generated. This system had orinally be
set up as a signal name domain (without the .local, .com
etc). Any Ideas?

William Rowland MCSA, MCSE

 

[Harvey Colwell]

After promoting Win 2K Server to DC, AD, GPO's etc works great. After a

few minutes, unable to access GP tab on OU's, Domain server etc. When I
run nslookup>domain it returns "non-existent domain". I have verified all
IP addresses, Host records, LDAP and DC name and IP, PTR records. I am
thinking this issue is a corupted server installation. I know when I
demote and promote a new sysvol folder is generated. This system had
orinally be set up as a signal name domain (without the .local, .com etc).
Any Ideas?

You don't say if this is your only DC or not. I'm assuming that it is. I
have experienced this problem when a DC had been previouls prompted and
demoted under a differenct domain name. When this happens, the netlogon.dns
file has the wrong information in it.

Make sure that, while as a member server, the correct domain sufix has been
assigned. Then rename the netlogon.dns file. A new one will be created
automatically.

HTH

 

[Guest]

I have completed removal of AD, netlogon.dns, dns files
attached to old dns, dhcp files. repromoted DC and have
the same issue. Could a installation coruption or
hardware failure cause this? Is there something else I
can try. I can not think of anything else to try.

Thanks

Bill