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How to Force Replication in AD with incomplete DC replicating Partners

AD problem in Windows 2003.
Q. How do you force replication between DCs that are all listed in Sites and Services, but only partial lists in each DC's NTDS i.e. no one DC's NTDS listing has all of the DCs listed, but there are at least 2 DCs listed in each NTDS as replication partners.
I have 4 DCs (DC1 and DC2) and 2 of them resolve DNS (NS1 and NS2)
i.e. in Sites and Services, under each DC's NTDS are listed the following:
DC1 <>NS2
            DC2
DC2 <> DC1
            NS1
NS1 <>DC2
            NS2
NS2 <>DC1
            NS1  
           
Running replmon shows NS1 and DC1 are not replicating properly and NS2 and DC2 not replicating properly. Toplogy confirms this.

Trying command line: repadmin /syncall /force etc. gives the following error:
DsReplicaSync() failed with status 8452 (0x2104):
    The naming context is in the process of being removed or is not replicated from the specified server.

Tried ntdsutil metadata cleanup but there was nothing to do

How does one fix this?
Thanks
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Forgot to tell you DCdiag reports will have errors that say ""DcGetname"" for missing Host A records.

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Checked my DNS records and everything is OK w/ A records.
I forgot to tell you I had run a dcdiag /fix with no errors and the report shows conectivity between all partners is OK.
Your dcdiag /fix.dns is an invalid syntax :)
Anyway, DCDIAG is clean.
I went ahead and did the net stop netlogon and start again and force replicate and it came up with the same error:
DsReplicaSync() failed with status 8452 (0x2104):
    The naming context is in the process of being removed or is not replicated from the specified server.
Any other suggestions?
Yes go to sites and services and for each site right click on each ntds and click check topology. This should correct itself. I have deleted the ntds before and check topology has brought it back.
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G-r-r-r. Didn't work. I am going to go to each DC and do a "push" replication /force then go back to S&S and check topology. But first I'm going out for a bite to eat. I'm starving! AD problems can wait 1 hour :)
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Zenith that is pretty much what I had said.
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Finally! Deleted all of them.
Added them back in.
Went to replmon and "synchorized each directory partition..." for each DC.
Went to topology and saw all servers were lnked, although two of them have only one link implying either a missing inbound or outbound link. (I'll check this later).
I went back to S&S and was able to replicate all servers to each other.
Thanks for the help. You get the points.
Thanks for the points
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Sorry, thenone:
You were not supposed to get the points. I tried to split between CiefT and Zenith63, but something screwed up. I will request the admin to award the points accordingly.