Absolutely wrote:
> 2 2000 Servers (SP4), one with AD, the other member. DC is primary
> DNS and member is secondary. Member is also mail server (IMail) and
> DHCP. Workstations are 2000 and XP.
>
> At some point last week the primary stopped responding to DNS queries
> (restarting the DNS service cured it), but even though the secondary
> was running fine, nothing would look to it for answers.

How have you determined that the clients are not using the Alternate DNS?

Are these two DNS servers configured to use a forwarder? What are the
forwarders?


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