DNS crashes W2K Adv. Serv.

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Eric L. Epps

We've been running our W2K Advanced Server webserver for
over a year now, and just today we started experiencing a
new issue. The server can be up for maybe 20 minutes or so
and then something happens with the DNS server (I assume)
and no computers on our Intranet (or our public sites) can
resolve DNS names. I can reboot and it'll work fine (for a
few minutes). Nothing abnormal in the event logs, no real
system slowdown (sometimes in Explorer, but I'm not sure
if that is related or not).

Can somebody PLEASE help me!?!?

Eric L. Epps
CBA Administrative Services
 
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Eric L. Epps said:
We've been running our W2K Advanced Server webserver for
over a year now, and just today we started experiencing a
new issue. The server can be up for maybe 20 minutes or so
and then something happens with the DNS server (I assume)
and no computers on our Intranet (or our public sites) can
resolve DNS names. I can reboot and it'll work fine (for a
few minutes). Nothing abnormal in the event logs, no real
system slowdown (sometimes in Explorer, but I'm not sure
if that is related or not).

Can somebody PLEASE help me!?!?

Eric L. Epps
CBA Administrative Services
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Are you sure that no changes have been made?
Are you hosting both public and private zones locally?
You don't give us much info to diagnose, an ipconfig /all unedited might
help but since a reboot fixes it for a few minutes it I can only guess DNS
misconfiguration.
 
To confirm that it is a DNS server problem, try using nslookup targeted at
the DNS server and look up a few names.
If that fails, just do a net stop dns & net start dns instead of rebooting.

If that solves the problem (temporarily) then the DNS server is likely the
problem, the next step would be to use dnscmd to enable debug logging and
examine the logs for the minute or so prior to the point where the server
stops responding.
 
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