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DNS getting critical errors from AD Error 4015

I just setup a new Domain Controller in an offsite office. Setup with sites and services went well. The new Domain controller is running R2 the DC at the home office is Windows 2003 Standard. I had to run adprep from my R2 disk 2 to add it as a DC but that went well.

The setup of the DC went smooth. My problem begins when I decided to add DNS to the second DC. Now I am getting the following errors:

Event Type:      Information
Event Source:      DNS
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      4514
Date:            3/25/2008
Time:            5:07:31 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:      Computer name
Description:
The DNS server detected that it is not enlisted in the replication scope of the directory partition DomainDnsZones.domainname.com. This prevents the zones that should be replicated to all DNS servers in the domainname domain from replicating to this DNS server. For information on how to add a DNS server to the replication scope of an application directory partition, please see Help and Support.

To create or repair the domain-wide DNS directory partition, open the the DNS console. Right-click the applicable DNS server, and then click 'Create Default Application Directory Partitions'. Follow the instructions to create the default DNS application directory partitions. For more information, see 'To create the default DNS application directory partitions' in Help and Support.
The error was 9002.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 2a 23 00 00 *#..

and

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      DNS
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      4015
Date:            3/25/2008
Time:            5:13:50 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:      computer name
Description:
The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly. The extended error debug information (which may be empty) is "000021A2: SvcErr: DSID-030A09F3, problem 5001 (BUSY), data 0". The event data contains the error.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 33 00 00 00 3...

When I try and do a connection with ntdsutil I get the following:
DsBindW error 0x6ba(The RPC server is unavailable)

Any ideas what went wrong with the DNS?

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That was awesome! The following fixed the issue. Thanks!

From a newsgroup post: "If you have installed AD using Dcprom , the dcpromo create the .(root) zone and when you need to use the forwords option as Microsoft recommendation for Internet names resolution you will always get the 4004 & 4015 errors in your log. To solve this problem and stop these events do the following:
1. Create a .(root) zone file
2. Right click the .(root) name and select Properties
3. Change the zone into a primary zone instead of the integrated AD zone type
4. Delete the .(root) zone"