Active Directory auto-configged DNS becomes Rootserver???

[RandyKeyers]

Hi all,

I'm currently configging my active directory PDC.
When I don't specify a DNS server, the installation asks if it has to install a DNS server.
Very handy... you'd think...

I want it to forward unresolvable query's to a DNS server on the internet, but since the DNS server is auto-configged to be a Root server its impossible to do this.

Any idea how to solve this problem?

Thanx in advance!

 

[vgrice]

To enable forwarding open the DNS snap-in. Right click on the server and go to properties. There on the forwarding tab you can enter the external servers. Also make sure that you delete any "." domain you have listed in your forward lookup zone Vince Grice
vgrice@hotmail.com
MCSE Win2K, NT; MCSA; MCP+I

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[GlenJohnson]

Active Directory won't work if you don't have dns installed. You can run dns without ad, but not the other way around. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
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[RandyKeyers]

I know that...
I've configged more AD's than this one...

But the question was: why is the DNS server installed as Rootserver.
The other times that I created an AD, a DNS server was also installed, but not as Rootserver.

Anyway... I've removed the Root ('.') domain, and reinstalled the DNS, and it works now.

 

[brontosaurus]

Hey Randy, typically this will happen when you install AD and it doesn't detect internet connectivity (root servers).