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DNS Issue

I have a well established w2k network and have just prepared it for 2003. However I have now tried to bring online two 2003 servers and have experienced the same problem. I seem to be loosing the host records from the w2k DNS server for both the 2003 boxes.
This I can confirm as Nslookup does not find the new 2003 boxes, and when I look in the w2k DNS the host records are missing. If I restart the 2003 boxes then DNS is registered again, this is also the case if I run ipconfig /registerdns on the 2003 boxes. I would appreciate any suggestions on this.

tanelorn

can you configure the 2003 boxes not to register in dns during startup? I'm thinking as part of the shutdown process, it "unregisters" itself, (deleting its own records...)

that's my gut feel for it, I'll have to do a bit of googling if that has no effect...

Tanelorn

mikeleebrla

if the 2003 box is up do you have host records then?

jdeclue

As these are both servers I would suggest that you manually create the records in DNS yourself. I would also set the TCP/IP properties on the servers to not update the DNS records. The only servers that should ever update there own records are virtual machine names for Clusters and Load Balanced systems. Other than that, Dynamic DNS updates are only for DHCP clients.

Do you need assistance in how to set the DNS entries for the servers and/or configuring the machine not to register themselves.

J

P.S. These are not running DHCP, correct?

finchr

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The boxes are on 24/7, So should just be registering themselves every 24 hours, but this is not happening. The suggestion to do the DNS manually sound good but, how do I achive this once I start wanting to promote servers to DC's? No these are not running DHCP.

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