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windows server 2008 dns server, set dns for specific ip
I am trying to do one thing, but fail to do so: create specific dns entry for only one FQDN.
This is my scenario: I have domain xxyy.lan and dns for it.
I have xxyy.com on the internet, and it has it ...
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Cannot join a virtual machine Windows 10 to server 2019 virtual machine domain?
I am working as an IT technician. In order to get some exposure to Hyper-V and Windows Servers.
My supervisor assigned me a project to learn how to install active directory and servers in server ...
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DNS Fails to simple query test
I seem to have a real odd problem that seems to escape me. I have two servers - both of which are ad controllers. My Problem Child is Windows 2008 R2, My other is a Windows 2012R2 that runs no problem....
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SQL Server Username Length
I have a SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008. The database handles spatial data.
I have a select group of users that are unable to use their domain accounts when working in the database as ...
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Secondary Domain Controller no longer part of the domain
[before anyone corrects me I've used the terms secondary and primary colloquially and I understand the terminology]
I have a problem with my secondary DC, but not on any other server in the domain. ...
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Windows AD domain - Server 2008 level - How to forward DNS requests for a single subdomain only to an external DNS server?
Internally, our AD domain is contoso.com, and our internal DNS servers present that domain authoritatively.
We're at Server 2008 forest/domain level.
Externally, contoso.com is a domain owned and ...
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What are the effects of setting my DHCP expiration for 8 hours and my no-refresh/refresh interval to 7 days?
Say I set my DHCP lease duration to be 8 hours. And leave the default DNS no-refresh interval, and refresh interval to 7 days. What kind of side-affects would I see from this?
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Add a machine in an active directory domain in Windows 2008 - DNS issue
I'm trying to add one of my machine to an Active Directory domain.
1) I added a record for my domain controller to the host file of the machine to translate its IP address
2) In the "Member of" field ...
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Windows 2k8 R2 DNS server - DNS request timed out
I have a problem with fresh installed AD/DNS server.
I have one domain controller that works as it should, without any issues.
Tried to install second DC at the second office. I've installed Active ...
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Server 2008 DNS/Hostname Lookups Giving Out Wrong NIC
So I have a Server 2008 machine which also acts as a PDC, and provides DNS to all other machines. Now, the server has 2 NICs, one on a 172.16.0.0/24 LAN, and one on a 192.168.47.0/24 LAN. Every ...
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LDAP Binding Error Applying GPO's
We are starting to apply GPO's to our live domain and we are running into some problems that our test domain didn't do.
All local machines are running on Windows 7 pro.
When I enforce Group Policy ...
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Gracefully migrate primary domain controller and DNS/DHCP role
I currently have 2 domain controllers (pdc and sdc) on Windows Server 2008. Domain and Forest levels are both 2008. Both are global catalog servers and are DNS servers. The server pdc is also my ...
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Attaching CentOS to domain yields "DNS update failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL"
I'm getting the following error attaching a new CentOS 7 machine to a Windows domain.
[root@centos samba]# net ads join -U administrator
Enter administrator's password:
Using short domain name -- ...
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DNS nslookup failing on DNS server
I am on one of the domain controllers and getting this issue with nslookup shown below, Why does it fail? other controllers don't have that issue. I have verified DNS config but didn't find anything ...
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Why is DNS Forwarder not resolving/working?
I just installed a Win 2008 Remote DC in one of our sites. For the DNS setting, it's using 127.0.0.1 as it's Primary and 10.1.1.2 (this is our AD/DNS in the Main HQ) as Secondary. We have some ...
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Migrate Windows Server 2008 configuration to Windows Server 2008
I've already taken a look at these questions:
Migrate Windows Server 2008 to another server
Migrate Windows Server 2008 to a new hard disk
Migrate Windows Server 2008 to a new hard disk 2
But I don'...
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Looking out a windows DNS configuration to server 2 domains
Have a setup having 2 Active directory on different domain.Wanted to configure single DNS server to serve both domains .I have windows 2008 configured for DNS server & created 2 forward zone's on ...
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Windows DNS Manager - Transfer All Zones from Primary to Secondary
Query is about Windows Server 2008 DNS manager.
I have setup a primary DNS server A, and created all zones there, it's working perfectly.
Now, I have setup a secondary DNS server B, and wants all ...
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DNS/WINS - having to define when joining to our domain
We have an AD environment all linked together to domain controllers in a datacentre via ipsec tunnels - the DNS appears to work perfectly, they're all set to 127.0.0.1 with forwarding addresses and ...
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Local DNS lookup always fails first time
On a very small number of Windows 10 machines at my work we have an issue where lookup of local domain names always fail to be resolved, but only for the first request.
The following is the output ...
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Windows DNS Server use public DNS for records not in Forward Zone
Can Windows DNS Server fall back to public DNS records for a domain it is authoritative for?
The Windows Domain doesn't follow best practices and uses a public domain name. The DC manages DNS for the ...
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Migrating DNS Server -- Record data still shows name of previous server
I have been tasked with Migrating a DNS Server.
Two separate servers
There is no Active Directory
Actual Migration -- not just creating secondary zones
For the sake of example let's name the servers:...
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Configure DC & Firewall/ Router such that clients can use Internet even if DC is down?
How do Windows domain clients behave if the DC is offline?
Read this and am getting some symptoms. Curious about the answer for this scenario.
When my Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials is down, ...
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Error sending mail to some adresses
I have a webshop application which sends mail after a customer has placed an order. For some valid emailadresses, mail is not sent and after a day a failure report is send to an administrator. Then ...
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Use Linux BIND DNS server for my Windows Active Directory 2008 R2
How can I use a Linux BIND DNS server for my Windows Sever 2008 R2 Active Directory?
We are trying to avoid having to use the Windows Sever 2008 Server as a Domain Controller at all.
We want to use ...
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Can ping hostname on local network, but need to use FQDN over VPN?
When I ping DC1 on a local network using only the hostname, I receive an expected response. However, if I ping a remote DC (DC5 for example) over site-to-site IPsec VPN, I receive the following error: ...
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How to control which ethernet interface Windows selects when resolving fully-qualified domain machine names?
I have a VM in AWS. I has two ethernet interfaces, which have different security groups applied to them. One of those security groups white-lists all sorts of machine addresses in my domain. When ...
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Add DNS record to zone that I don't administer
TL;DR - I want to add a DNS service record to a zone that our parent company manages in our local DNS server since parent company won't help but don't want to maintain an entire copy of their primary ...
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Can Windows 2008 DNS assign 2 host names to one IP address
One of my windows admins claimed: "Windows 2008 DNS server can't assign 2 names to one IP address". Besides the fact that you could use a CNAME to accomplish that, I'm sure (having worked with all ...
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Force VPN clients to use the on-site DNS
We currently use RAS on a server 2008 for VPN access to our network.
The problem is that the hosts connected to the network through that VPN can't resolve onsite names.
Ex:
$remoteuser on $...
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How to mask a website URL transparently redirecting in Windows Server DNS
I am trying to setup a SharePoint intranet site in Office 365. Our DNS provider doesn't support masked redirects like GoDaddy does. Masked redirects maintain the original requested domain in the ...
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Network path not found while joining client to domain
I am using Windows server 2008r2 and it has AD, DHCP and DNS. When I tried to join clients to our domain, it worked well for almost 5 years. But on monday it refused to join. The error message was "...
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Time taken to resolve DNS
I need to find out the time it takes to resolve DNS for a specific website.
For example: I need to find out in how many milliseconds it takes to resolve abc.com using the 8.8.8.8 global DNS server ...
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Are incorrectly configured DNS servers the root cause of slow logins to the windows domain?
We have six AD Windows servers (I believe they are all 2008 R2, running at a functional 2008 R2 domain)
All six servers have the AD role and DNS role. We have about 1200 workstations in our ...
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Secure Dynamic Updates in Active Directory-integrated DNS server not working
Domain Controller + DNS server is Window Server 2008 R2 Std.
DHCP Server is Cisco Catalyst 3560 & 3750
How to trust this DHCP Server in my Active Directory-integrated DNS Server, so that I can ...
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Disallow Non-authoritative requests to DNS caches
I need to configure the following setting for my DNS Server. This server is also my Domain Controller ( Window Server 2008 R2 Standard )
A) Non-authoritative requests to DNS caches should not be ...
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Active Directory domain name conflicts with web server DNS
I took over support for a Windows 2008 domain that was set up by another system administrator. The DNS name of the domain is admin.example.com and a web site is also using the same DNS name. The ...
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active directory domain resolution - public DNS? [closed]
I am not sure how all these are being link up , but right now , my PC is joined to my company AD domain at "whatever.local"
I am pretty sure that "whatever.local" is not resolvable in the public ...
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Unable to fully remove Windows DNS subdomain
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS server (that replicated to two other servers) with a zone called mycompany.com. I created a new subdomain for that zone called subdomain.mycompany.com, this ...
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Map A Drive To Same Windows Server Using DNS?
I'm having trouble mapping a drive to a shared folder using a DNS name.
I have 3 windows 2008 Server machines. All 3 machines have code that needs to be able to access one of the 3 machines.
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Connect two remote offices
I would like to connect my company's office with another remote office that is owned by us. Our office is in Europe and the new one is in the states . I'm an experienced sys admin
However I've never ...
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Windows 2008R2 Domain Controller: Name Resolution (hosts file, DNS) does not work
I have got a pretty strange issue on a domain controller. Environment is:
Windows 2008R2 Std Server + all updates
One DC + a few Windows clients joined to that AD
On that DC was Symantec Endpoint ...
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Run a dns cache or local server to reduce unknown host errors?
Our company runs lots of applications which rely on the network for several operations (email sending, file downloading, etc).
We ofter get errors like UnknownHostException, which break some business ...
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Domain Controller unable to authenticate Static IP workstation/server
I have an exchange server which was on a static IP (192.168.10.3) previously, failed to communicate with my all-in-one domain controller (192.168.10.2) out of a sudden. The only way to get it working ...
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DC1 Can't See DC2 Nor Network Machines Can't See Domain
Using Windows Server 2008 R2
Found an issue with my Domain Controller 1. Setup is basic and the main domain controller is hosting AD and DNS. The secondary cannot find the primary.
dcgetdcname ...
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Probable DNS issues on server 2008 domain
Symptoms:
Workstations sporadically lose connection to certain websites (internal and external). Example: A workstation will get a time-out error when attempting to navigate to google.com but will ...
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Cannot access network shares by hostname over SSL VPN
I am connecting to a server at another location, I cannot access network shares by hostname (\server\share). I decided to ping the server to see if I could reach it, no luck. Pinged by IP and got a ...
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[SOLVED]W2K8 DNS server is resolving private IP addresses to the internet
OK, so I've read a bunch of articles which revolve around my problem, but none of them have a clear answer. There is a ton of arguing back and forth and while I understand there are a few schools of ...
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Confusion with DNS on Windows server and Sonicwall
I've been reading a bit tonight on how to best set up our school network for Internet connectivity. It works as it is, but there are hiccups in client/server access to the Internet from time to time. ...
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DNS setup over RRAS, Can't join Domain Controller
I currently have 1 domain controller in one of our premises. I have another server 2008 r2 which I have installed RRAS on and have setup 2 direct dials on either end and they have connected fine.
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