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Domain name change, forward lookup zone issue

Posted on 2011-03-04

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I"ve got a new server 2008, not currently in use yet. I was asked to change the domain name and did so following the instructions below.

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/techscrawl/server-2008-domain-rename-28069

My problem is that I am unable to join computers to the domain. I'm getting an error message that says

An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a comain controller in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names.....

When I check on the DNS on the server, the forward look zones have the old domain name. I'm guessing I need to delete those and create new ones w/ the new domain name, but that will be a new process for me.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

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Question by:SupermanTB

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by:dmf415

ID: 350385182011-03-04

You must add your domains DNS server to the domain controller. Basically you goto your new domain controllers network properties and change the dns server in the tcp/ip settings

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by:kevinhsieh

ID: 350388682011-03-04

You probably need to create a new authoratitive DNS zone on your DNS server hosted by the domain controller. I bet that the domain rename didn't create a new DNS zone, so you effectively don't have DNS for your AD domain and that breaks AD.

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by:SupermanTB

ID: 350389172011-03-04

Should I just delete the old zones?

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by:SupermanTB

ID: 350390502011-03-04

I have the DNS pointing to itself in the TCP/IP properties

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by:dmf415

dmf415 earned 166 total points

ID: 350391592011-03-04

you may need to make the server a global catalog server. try this

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by:kevinhsieh

kevinhsieh earned 167 total points

ID: 350393922011-03-04

If you have zones for an old, non-existant domain, then yes I would delete them. Make sure you have the new one in place and that the DC put its information in there.

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by:Darius Ghassem

Darius Ghassem earned 167 total points

ID: 350401452011-03-04

When you recreate make sure you make them AD integrated this could have fixed the problem when you domian renamed

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by:SupermanTB

ID: 350475432011-03-06

It actually end up being easier to delete the domain entirely and recreate a new one. I'll divy up points for effort. Thanks.

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