Ok, here's the situation. We have one Dell Poweredge 4400 running Windows 2000 Small Business Server. We also have a glorified workstation running Windows 2000 Server that I configured as a second AD Domain Controller.
We had a power outage and our UPS did it's usually reliable job of allowing the main server to NOT shutdown gracefully. In spite of that, it came back up and everything was working normally...except the DNS. We had no Internet access that morning at all and after much tinkering I went ahead and built a DNS server on the other server, changed the DNS settings in DHCP and everyone was happy again.
Back to the original server. It seemed that DNS was corrupted (kept failing recursive testing)so I decided to reinstall DNS on the server, manually changed my client DNS server to point to the old one again and everything appeared to be working. So, I have both DNS servers forwarding to the same outside DNS servers we've always used. Both DNS servers pass simple and recursive testing. However, on the "New" DNS server (the workstation everyone is still pointing at)I get no errors at all, but on the "Old" (rebuilt) DNS server I get the following:
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Source: DNS
Event ID: 7063
The DNS server is configured to forward to a non-recursive DNS server at (IP Address).
DNS servers in forwarders list MUST be configured to process recursive queries.
Either
1) fix the forwarder (IP Address) to allow recursion
- connect to it with DNS Manager
- bring up server properties
- open "Advanced" tab
- uncheck "Disable Recursion"
- click OK
OR
2) remove this forwarder from this servers forwarders list
- DNS Manager
- bring up server properties
- open "Forwarders" tab
- remove (IP Address) from list of forwarders
- click OK
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Multiple IP addresses show up in the errors and none of them are configured as our forwarders, nor are they root hints. Both servers are configured exactly the same, so while one would get errors on the forwarders, the other would not.
Any ideas? My logs are (in the immortal words of Trump) yooge!
Thanks!
We had a power outage and our UPS did it's usually reliable job of allowing the main server to NOT shutdown gracefully. In spite of that, it came back up and everything was working normally...except the DNS. We had no Internet access that morning at all and after much tinkering I went ahead and built a DNS server on the other server, changed the DNS settings in DHCP and everyone was happy again.
Back to the original server. It seemed that DNS was corrupted (kept failing recursive testing)so I decided to reinstall DNS on the server, manually changed my client DNS server to point to the old one again and everything appeared to be working. So, I have both DNS servers forwarding to the same outside DNS servers we've always used. Both DNS servers pass simple and recursive testing. However, on the "New" DNS server (the workstation everyone is still pointing at)I get no errors at all, but on the "Old" (rebuilt) DNS server I get the following:
________________________________
Source: DNS
Event ID: 7063
The DNS server is configured to forward to a non-recursive DNS server at (IP Address).
DNS servers in forwarders list MUST be configured to process recursive queries.
Either
1) fix the forwarder (IP Address) to allow recursion
- connect to it with DNS Manager
- bring up server properties
- open "Advanced" tab
- uncheck "Disable Recursion"
- click OK
OR
2) remove this forwarder from this servers forwarders list
- DNS Manager
- bring up server properties
- open "Forwarders" tab
- remove (IP Address) from list of forwarders
- click OK
___________________________________
Multiple IP addresses show up in the errors and none of them are configured as our forwarders, nor are they root hints. Both servers are configured exactly the same, so while one would get errors on the forwarders, the other would not.
Any ideas? My logs are (in the immortal words of Trump) yooge!
Thanks!