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DNS - DCDIAG - Records Registration fails from Client, but not from DC - Windows 2008 R2 Domain
Posted on 2013-06-28
Greetings. I've perused Experts Ex. for this problem and found several suggested solutions, none of which work. When running: dcdiag to test DNS from my workstation, the Records Registration test fails, showing missing SRV, CNAME and A records for the DC the test is run on. We have three DCs and using any of them results in the same error. The DNS settings on each DC are correct, in accordance with Microsoft best practices (1. Other internal DNS, 2. Other internal DNS, 3.127.0.0.1).
I've run ipconfig /registerdns for each DC - no fix.
I've checked that IPv6 ::1 are not listed as the first DNS servers.
I've run NLTEST /DSREGDNS to reregister DNS records for DCs.
When running the same DCDIAG test directly from the DCs, all tests pass.
Is this something I should be concerned with or just ignore ?
Thanks much.
Screen cap below:
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C:\Windows\system32>DCDIAG /s:XXXXXX /TEST:DNS
Directory Server Diagnosis
Performing initial setup:
* Identified AD Forest.
Done gathering initial info.
Doing initial required tests
Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\XXXXXX
Starting test: Connectivity
......................... XXXXXX passed test Connectivity
Doing primary tests
Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\XXXXXX
Starting test: DNS
DNS Tests are running and not hung. Please wait a few minutes...
......................... XXXXXX passed test DNS
Running partition tests on : ForestDnsZones
Running partition tests on : DomainDnsZones
Running partition tests on : Schema
Running partition tests on : Configuration
Running partition tests on : OUR_DOMAIN
Running enterprise tests on : OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Starting test: DNS
Test results for domain controllers:
DC: XXXXXX.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Domain: OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
TEST: Records registration (RReg)
Network Adapter [00000012] Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter:
Warning:
Missing CNAME record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
abb446ee-2257-4aec-a703-0ed71db0c6cd._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Warning:
Missing A record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
XXXXXX.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_ldap._tcp.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_ldap._tcp.e7017361-fefa-4b77-8b14-7cc8f684ea19.domains._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_kerberos._tcp.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_kerberos._udp.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_kpasswd._tcp.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_kerberos._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.dc._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.dc._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_kerberos._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_ldap._tcp.gc._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Warning:
Missing A record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
gc._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_gc._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error:
Missing SRV record at DNS server 192.168.1.30:
_ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.gc._msdcs.OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
Error: Record registrations cannot be found for all the network adapters
Summary of DNS test results:
Auth Basc Forw Del Dyn RReg Ext
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Domain: OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL
XXXXXX PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL n/a
......................... OUR_DOMAIN.LOCAL failed test DNS
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