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Domain Controllers not replicating

Asked by ddman1971 in Active Directory, Windows 2003 Server, Domain Name Service (DNS)

I am receiving these error messages on several of my domain controllers:

This is the replication status for the following directory partition on the local domain controller.
 
Directory partition:
DC=stlouis,DC=apd,DC=local
 
The local domain controller has not recently received replication information from a number of domain controllers.   The count of domain controllers is shown, divided into the following intervals.
 
More than 24 hours:
1
More than a week:
1
More than one month:
0
More than two months:
0
More than a tombstone lifetime:
0
Tombstone lifetime (days):
60
 Domain controllers that do not replicate in a timely manner may encounter errors. It may miss password changes and be unable to authenticate. A DC that has not replicated in a tombstone lifetime may have missed the deletion of some objects, and may be automatically blocked from future replication until it is reconciled.
 
To identify the domain controllers by name, install the support tools included on the installation  CD and run dcdiag.exe.
You can also use the support tool repadmin.exe to display the replication latencies of the domain controllers in the forest.   The command is "repadmin /showvector /latency <partition-dn>".

Also, on the Forest domain, I'm getting:

The Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) was unable to form a complete spanning tree network topology. As a result, the following list of sites cannot be reached from the local site.
 
Sites:
CN=Gulfco,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=apd,DC=local
AND
All domain controllers in the following site that can replicate the directory partition over this transport are currently unavailable.
 
Site:
CN=Gulfco,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=apd,DC=local
Directory partition:
CN=Configuration,DC=apd,DC=local
Transport:
CN=IP,CN=Inter-Site Transports,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=apd,DC=local

The errors that are occurring are probably due to the forced removal of the domain controller STLDCC that was in Gulfco.  I was not able to do the proper dcpromo on it because it was already on it's last leg and wasn't communicating with the rest of the forest.

How do I get rid of all of these error messages?  None of my DC are replicating.

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