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DNS not working on 2003 server

I came in this morning and noticed our windows 2003 server isn't working correctly. All clients are windows XP Pro. When trying to ping server or workstations by name, it hangs about 10 seconds, then get ping reply. When connecting to server and other PC's via IP, there is no issue. I think maybe the server powered down improperly due to a power related issue. I tried typical things (rebooting server, restarting DNS, etc)

Please Help

Qlemo

Is the W2003 server running the internal DNS service, too?

SysExpert

Is this a Domain ?

Have you tried te support tools
netdiag

and DCDIAG ( if a Domian controller )

I hope this helps !

Henrik Johansson

Ensure that the internal clients and server *only* use the internal DNS server for direct DNS resolving. Never use external/ISP DNS server for direct resolving, instead configure internal DNS server to use forwarders to forward unresolved queries to ISP's DNS server.

ChiefIT

Let me get this straight:

You pinged by servername:

Ping servername

Ping is a multi-communications protocol diagnostic utility. If you pinged by servername, you are actually doing a netbios ping, not a DNS ping. This often deceives folks into troubleshooting DNS

Try this:

Ping Servername.fully.qualified.domain.name

Or

NSlookup Servername.domain.name

If you have no problems with the fully qualified domain name, we might consider troubleshooting Netbios rather than DNS.

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Henrik Johansson

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