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I created a new site and moved seperated the servers. In dns the new site has
the correct servers the org site has it's servers plus the new sites servers
listed. Should sites and servers updated this in DNS?
"Herb Martin" wrote:
> "mo_d" <mod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:45B4F92E-1D55-4636-B6FF-BF75F1D69B9F@microsoft.com...
> > I recently seperated my two sites in "sites and services". When I look at
> DNS
> > FL zone _sites under the original site all the servers still show up.
> Should
> > i delete those since they are associated with another site???
>
> Normally, the answer is No.
> (It is possible that ultimately this will be
> your only recourse but give that a bit.)
>
> The normal case is that in Sites and Services
> you move the DCs (or other servers) the correct
> Site (right click->move).
>
> You might need to reboot or take other action
> to get DNS updated.
>
> Below, I will post my general recommendations
> for DNS to support AD; those for updating the
> DNS are most important, but you may have a
> misconfiguration as well so it is worht double
> checking all of it.
>
>
> DNS for AD
> 1) Dynamic for the zone supporting AD
> 2) All internal DNS clients NIC\IP properties must specify SOLELY
> that internal, dynamic DNS server (set.)
> 3) DCs and even DNS servers are DNS clients too -- see #2
> 4) If you have more than one Domain, every DNS server must
> be able to resolve ALL domains (either directly or indirectly)
>
> netdiag /fix
>
> ....or maybe:
>
> dcdiag /fix
>
> (Win2003 can do this from Support tools):
> nltest /dsregdns /server
C-ServerNameGoesHere
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q260371/
>
> Ensure that DNS zones/domains are fully replicated to all DNS
> servers for that (internal) zone/domain.
>
> Also useful may be running DCDiag on each DC, sending the
> output to a text file, and searching for FAIL, ERROR, WARN.
>
> Single Label domain zone names are a problem Google:
> [ "SINGLE LABEL" domain names DNS 2000 | 2003 microsoft: ]
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