Right now there are no forward lookup zones configured. I have bee trying to
do this. I recreated them but no luck. There was never a record
msdcs.domainname .....

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

> tallen wrote:
> > Do I need to configure look up zones? The clients have only the ip
> > address of the server in the dns. the server has itself as the dns.
> > The gateway and clients have the gateway set to the router ip.
>
> When you promoted the server to a Domain Controller it asked you to allow it
> to set up DNS for Active Directory, did it do this?
>
> Being Win2k3, it should have created two forward lookup zones, one named
> with your domain name, the other named _msdcs.domainname.
> Are these zones in DNS?
>
> Post an ipconfig /all from the DC and the AD domain name.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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