Active Directory and DNS

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Is there a way to view what information Active directory has stoed about
specific DNZ zones. why i ask is that i have tried to add zones and i will
get error messages stating they exist but idont see them anywhere.
 
Matt said:
Is there a way to view what information Active directory has stoed about
specific DNZ zones. why i ask is that i have tried to add zones and i will
get error messages stating they exist but idont see them anywhere.
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I am pretty sure that is a problem that has been seen before.

If you try this search at Google (with exact error message)
you should find the relevant articles:

Google:
[ site:microsoft.com 2000 dns "exact error message" ]

You might substitute an * (asterisk) for any ONE small
word like "on, of, the" (I haven't had much luck with
multiple *'s in the same search.

You can also try the web wide Google "Microsoft collection":

[ microsoft: 2000 dns "exact error message" ]
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Hi Matt,

I am sure you configured a intregrated zone and the old zone is still in the
Active Directory.
Follow the steps:
1. Open dsa.msc
2. Click view and select Advanced...
3. Expand your domain then system
4. Expand Microsoft DNS
5. If you have more than one zone you will see a CNF folder
6. Delete the old zone
7. If you have more than one domain controller force a replication among them
8. Try to recreate the zone using dnsmgmt.msc
 
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Matt said:
Is there a way to view what information Active directory has stoed
about specific DNZ zones. why i ask is that i have tried to add
zones and i will get error messages stating they exist but idont see
them anywhere.
Click to expand...

You can use ADSI Edit to view AD Integrated zone data. Now, if this is
WIndows 2003, then it's a different story, since you also have the
application partitions where the zone may exist. If you have a mixed
environment (2000 and 2003), you need to be careful on how you store the
zone. If you created it as AD integrated in 2000, but on a 2003 machine, you
opted to store it in 'All DNS servers in the AD domain" (which would be the
app DomainDnsZones partition), then I can see where you are getting th
conflict. You can use ntdsutil to view these partitions on a 2003 machine.

Please provide us with more specific info about your config to better help.

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Regards,
Ace

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