Windows 2000 Server: DNS woes (et.al)

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Fran

I have a windows 2000 server and have the following problems:

1) This morning nobody could log in. They had internet access but no
LAN connection. I could connect FROM the server TO the workstation
(using RealVNC to remote admin.) and I can ping the server Addr from
the workstation but not using the server name (DNS issue?) This is a
single server LAN running Active Directory.

I got the server to come back by powering down and restarting
(rebooting alone did not fix the problem)

2) There are times that our Pervasive database engine and our Backup
Exec services just QUIT running. I have to restart them or reboot the
server. I get a BE message in the System Event log that sez something
about error 7031 and SCM but cannot find any assistance on fixing
this. I believe both problems (Pervasive and BE) are related.

Any help is appreciated! Are there any good diag tools I can use to
discover the root of these problems? Any known solutions ???

Fran
 
Are your clients IP addresses pointing to the ISP DNS by any change instaed
of the AD DNS server???????
 
John,

The clients are getting their DHCP and DNS addresses automatically
from the DHCP server.

When I run IPCONFIG /ALL from any workstation I get a list of IP
addresses for DNS servers but NONE of them are the PDC's address.

Note that DHCP is NOT coming from THIS server. It's from another
server on the network but not part of our domain.

I did enable Dynamic Updates while I was checking the forward and
reverse lookup zones. Could that help?

Is there something else I should look at?

Fran
 
Fran said:
John,

The clients are getting their DHCP and DNS addresses automatically
from the DHCP server.

When I run IPCONFIG /ALL from any workstation I get a list of IP
addresses for DNS servers but NONE of them are the PDC's address.
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That's bad (note that there's no PDC in W2k/AD) - All servers and
workstations should specify *only* the internal AD-integrated DNS server's
IP address in their network settings. The AD-integrated DNS server should be
set up with forwarders to your ISP's DNS servers for external resolution.
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300202 for more
info.
Note that DHCP is NOT coming from THIS server. It's from another
server on the network but not part of our domain.
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Any reason why you need to use this DHCP server?
I did enable Dynamic Updates while I was checking the forward and
reverse lookup zones. Could that help?
Click to expand...

Whose DHCP server are you using? What DNS servers does it specify?
 
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