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Error when creating an A record for a specific servername. I'm able to create others
I'm unable to create a A record for a server, SERVER1 . The record does not exist.
When i try to create it I recieve the message "The host record SERVER1.xxx.yyy cannot be created. Access is ...
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Possible to mirror DNS forward lookup zone to second TLD? (Windows Server)
We recently started using a new TLD for our company, but are still maintaining the old TLD.
On our local DNS server (Windows Server 2012) we have internal DNS records set up as subdomains of the old ...
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CNAME (pointing to the same server) asks for credentials
Let's say I have two Windows Servers:
dc1
dc2
And I have a CNAME record:
MyFileServer (pointing to dc2)
If I from dc1 opens share \\MyFileServer\c$, then it works fine.
If I from dc2 opens share \\...
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DNS suffix works only when no subdomains are added
We have a DNS suffix for our domain ourdomain.local and it works whenever we have one additional DNS component e.g. test1.ourdomain.local or graphs.ourdomain.local, so that means we only have to type ...
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DNSSEC Migration with only KSKs migrated
Short version: If a DNSSec-signed sone suddenly replace both ZSK (and all records related to the old ZSK), and at the same time keep the KSKs (which are referenced to by upstream server). Will it ...
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UDM Pro Site To Site VPN with Domain Issues
I have 2 UDM Pro firewalls setup with a IPsec site to site VPN, the settings are the same for both VPNs (obviously the destination IPs are reversed for each unit) I can ping traffic with IP addresses ...
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I cannot join machines to domains when primary DC fails, everything else works fine
So we have two domain controllers on our little network and they both have DHCP and DNS replication.
Active Directory was set up with replication betweens these two.
Information that is created on any ...
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Dual DNS Issue - Internal & External
I'm in a fix here in offering a softphone solution for a company to allow users work from home.
CURRENT SCENARIO:
The company has an existing internal Windows DNS "ABCcompany.com" and ...
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Is it possible to create a child domain and migrate workstations to it in Windows 2012 AD?
I have a client that was initially setup as domain.com in Windows 2012 AD. For whatever reason they are migrating to a hosted Exchange server (instead of O365, which would be the better choice IMHO). ...
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Removing DNSSEC - Can it be done, and how can I?
A little while ago, I deployed DNSSEC because in doing so I reduced the number of security configuration checks I needed to implement on my local domain's DNS. These are Windows Server 2012R2 ...
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Windows DNS server: Own IP in the DNS settings?
I have following network devices:
10.0.22.1 = Router
10.0.22.10 = Windows Server, acts as AD, DNS and DHCP
Question:
In the Windows Ethernet settings of the server, I have currently entered:
IP-...
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Do I actually need a DNS service on a remote dedicated server
I have a remote dedicated server running Windows Server 2012 R2. It's a single server hosted in a datacenter. We've had no end of issues with the DNS service being reported for committing abuse due to ...
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DNS Failover between 2 Data Centers
Scenario is this :
In a simplified deployment scenario, need to specify a single IP address of NAV Application Server for various POS machines to communicate with it. In this particular scenario of ...
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Migrate to new AD domain, but keep old DFS root
I have an Active Directory domain (we'll call OLD.TLD) in production and need to change the name (for reasons I won't elaborate on).
There are many, many files with links to a DFS namespace in this ...
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Dns configuration in windows changes unintentionally to manual mode
We have a Domain controller (windows server 2012) in our LAN, there is also a DHCP server for clients to get them IP automatically.
all clients give right ip and dns configurations and work as well ...
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windows server dns, disable root zone request
Good day.
I have a simple problem, but i can't solve it.
I have a DC with domain sub.domain.com. And i have a publick domain with a website domain.com, hosted to another server and another dns.
When i ...
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Why has my domain controller remembered its dns/dhcp settings from before a reinstall?
Recently due to a hardware upgrade/replacement we powered down the whole domain (this is a small office so it's all on one server (ADDS, DNS & DHCP)) but when we powered up the network couldn't ...
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Cannot modify Audit Policy
I would like to setup an audit policy on my servers but in each server I want setup I am not able to modify anything also in the domain controllers server I cannot set it up. In fact each time I open ...
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Windows Server 2012 DNS – how to create DNS policies
I have an Window Server 2012 R2 DNS server , Active Directory integrated, deserving 3 different internal networks , in a single domain.
I need to make it responding to DNS queries based on client IP ...
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DNS server scavenges active records
I have 3 DNS servers and one of them removes too many records including active ones. Last time 412 records (out of 2086 if I get it right) were removed:
The DNS server has completed a scavenging ...
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DNS times out twice and then resolves on DomainController
Lookup from non-domain controllers result is fine. But on the domain controller the nslookup times out twice and then it resolves the address. This DC is a fresh install and I'm unable to find out the ...
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DNS server is not working - timed out
I have 2 child controllers. But one of the controller can resolve names and the other doesn't. I can't find out the cause. Any suggestions to troubleshoot this?
Edit: It seems like AD_child_02 cannot ...
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Migrating from Microsoft AD integrated DNS to Infoblox
I have an AD domain with two domain controllers and integrated DNS. Since we're moving to Infoblox as the master DNS, the idea is to migrate the existing zone to the Infoblox and make it possible for ...
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Single Server 2012 R2 - DNS service won't start
I got called in to help a small office and found a Server 2012 R2 box that hadn't had any updates installed since 2014. Went ahead and let it update and now DNS won't start. Unfortunately this is ...
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Clients could not join to domain controller
When I`m trying join a client to the domain controller the client raises the following error:
The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used ...
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Internal DNS TTLs
Four-site company using Windows Domain and DNS servers. Minimum of one DC/DNS server per site. One site is HQ and hosts most companywide servers and services. DNS records for Windows servers are ...
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Windows not resolving DNS
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine which looses it's ability to resolve DNS after running a certain time (several weeks).
Network interface is configured to use my router as DNS server which ...
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duplicate DNS record side effect
I am trying to understand duplicate DNS record in Windows, in the past we had an issue under Linux environment that cause the whole zone to go down (cant access most of the zone due too many incorrect ...
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DNS resolving timeout
I have a DNS in Linux Centos 7, and when integrating with Windows Server 2012 R2 it only solves in an inverse way, that is, with its IP address, when I try to resolve directly the server, it takes a ...
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Windows Mapped Drive of DNS A Record Seems Cached
I have an A record setup for a specific host IP. I'm then using the A record as the part of the UNC path for a network drive mapping (X:).
net use x: \\my-arecord.host.com\share
My problem is when ...
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How to Backup Microsft DNS Server Log Before Hitting Maximum Size?
I'm not seeing any way to send these DNS Logs to a remote server for cold storage. Is there a built-in way to make sure Windows sends log entries to another server (or file!) before it hits Maximum ...
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Multiple Domain Controller
i need help on configuring this properly.
we have 5 domain controller which 4 of them are located in different country and the other one is which is located in locally.
Problem:
PC cannot join to ...
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Our website is not resolving from our LAN because of LAN DNS configuration
We have a LAN/WAN network with a Windows domain name (ourcompanyweb.org) that matches our website url (http://ourcompanyweb.org) which is hosted externally. When I ping our website (of the same name) ...
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Domain name conflicts with website address
I am seeing an issue where I can't access the company website from the in-office server, and I also can't ping the mail server (both of these are hosted by some ISP).
After looking around I think the ...
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Get-DnsServerForwarder in WinSrv2012R2
Can anyone tell me why when I execute this Powershel cmdlet I can see a DNS forwarder that I inserted earlier (also using PS) but I can't see it on the DNS management console?
PS C:\Users\...
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Windows Server - Redirect Traffic To Another Subnet
on windows server 2012 I have 2 network cards, one of them connects directly to the router on static ip 192.168.1.11 and that second card I have a second ip set as 192.168.1.12.
From the router I ...
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DNS Server on AD logging queries even when disabled
I have two Server 2012 R2 DCs running DNS.
The DNS server has Debug Logging turned off in the GUI, however I am getting daily 500MB dns#TIMESTAMP#.log files in C:\Windows\System32\DNS\Logs\
I ran ...
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Windows 7 Cannot Join Domain
I'm having trouble connecting a Windows 7 computer to my Domain. I'm running a private network inside VMWare Workstation and have successfully connected a WinXP and Win10 machine to the network ...
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504 DNS Lookup failed with domain-user, working fine with local user
I just set up a DNS Server on my Windows Server 2012 R2 DC and joined my PC into this domain (test.local).
But now I a DNS error when trying to access an Web Application from another domain (eg. ...
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Windows 2012 DNS getting public ip instead of NIC IP
Win 2012 ADDC DNS
Today PCs were unable to login to domain. We transfered the ADDC to a new server a few weeks ago. After all the troubleshooting I found out that DNS is not working correctly, ...
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Restrict AD user to computer where DNS name is more than 15 chars?
I want to restrict a AD user to one computer.
You can add it with Account > Log On To > Computer name.
Now I see you can only add a computer name that is not longer than 15 chars.
How can I solve it,...
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DNS Server on DC MS Server 2012 tries to reach gtld-servers.net
I have a Windows Server 2012 domain controller with DNS Server role installed. I configured several DNS servers as forwarders and that's working absolutely fine. All DNS requests are resolved.
Now I ...
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NSLookup Requires "." in all queries
I am not sure what happened but after reinstalling Windows DNS (server 2012 r2), when I do an nslookup and enter any domain it appends my domain to the end. For example:
I enter "microsoft.com" and ...
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Store conditional forwarder in Active Directory
When creating a conditional forwarder in DNS, what does the option Store this conditional forwarder in Active Directory do? What happens if the option is not enabled?
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DNS issue when communicating with Windows Server 2012 R2
I have upgraded my Windows Server 2008 R2 to a new Windows Server 2012 R2 and installed AD DS, but when to trying to join other PCs to the domain it gives the following error:
The specified domain ...
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How to prioritize DNS address with multiple DHCP scopes
At my company our DHCP server is configured with multiple scopes.
Two of them is responsible for giving IP addresses to notebooks.
Scope A gives IP address for LAN connection. Uses subnet 255.255.0....
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Microsoft AD Server Migration - Two Servers Shutting Down One(Avoiding Server Demotion)
I have two servers, one old AD server (server A) and a brand new server (server B). I am trying to migrate from old to new so I setup my second server following these instructions and add the second ...
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Group policy not updating on Windows Server 2012 R2
I have a small solution for one of our customers.
There are 3 servers, a Domain Controller, Session Host Server and a Sage Server.
Just recently we've noticed that group policies are no longer ...
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what happened to the timestamp field in DNS console?
I just installed DNS server on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. When I look at the records in the console, I have Name, Type, Data fields, but no Timestamp field. What's up with that? How do I get it?...
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Secondary DNS not resolving for client
I'm learning about DNS and set up a lab. Hopefully I can explain this. So, I set up an AD-Integrated zone on Server1 and a Secondary zone on Server2. I added Computer1 (DNS pointed to Server2), works ...
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