On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> dnscmd is your friend.

No doubt. What exactly I ask my friend, I don't know ... and what to
look for in the returned responses


>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Melvin Backus <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> It sounds like they're getting tombstoned.  If they're static IPs try 
>>> setting the DNS entries statically as well.
>>
>> Manually entering them into DNS, you mean? I am really trying to avoid
>> entering hundreds of IPs statically into DNS ..
>>
>> And why would they be tombstoning so soon?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
>>>          those who understand binary and those who don't.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] 
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone
>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 8:41 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [NTSysADM] DNS errors after installing Win2012 R2 DCs
>>>
>>> I have installed 3 new Win2012 R2 DCs, which will be the replacements for 
>>> my Win2008 R2 DCs. I have repointed everything to use one of the new 
>>> Win2012 DCs for DNS, rather than the Win2008 R2. And now I am seeing DNS 
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> Specifically, hosts will just drop out of DNS. (these are servers with 
>>> static IPs). An nslookup will fail, and examining the zone will show no 
>>> record at all for that server (even though that server has been in 
>>> existence for years). Doing a "ipconifg /registerdns" on the missing server 
>>> does make it show back up in DNS. But why is it dropping out in the first 
>>> place?
>>>
>>> Event log on the DNS server (the server listed first in DNS settings for 
>>> all my hosts) is showing occasional warnings of event 7062, finding a 
>>> packet addressed to itself. Can't imagine what is doing that, I have 
>>> checked and this DNS server doesn't have itself as a forwarder, and is on 
>>> the notify list of the primary zone (notification is set to all servers on 
>>> the NS tab, and this one is).
>>>
>>> So I am not sure what's going on, or what is causing it.
>>>
>>> Zone is set for "Secure only" dynamic updates, aging is set to scavenge 
>>> stale records every 7 days (no-refresh and refresh interval) . These should 
>>> be the defaults (we haven't changed the zone since we installed the Win2012 
>>> DCs.
>>>
>>> There is 1 wrinkle - we use SolarWinds, and their IPAM (IP Address 
>>> Management). That software sets itself to receive zone transfers (so it can 
>>> track DNS and DHCP), and so it is listed on the "Zone Transfers" tab, as an 
>>> allowed server. But the "Notify" button is set to automatically notify only 
>>> servers on the Name Servers tab.
>>>
>>> I know that there is zone transfer working from the SolarWinds server, I 
>>> see event log entries showing zone transfer from that server.
>>>
>>> Anybody use this IPAM?
>>>
>>> I am going to try changing the notification list to be manual, and include 
>>> the SolarWinds server.
>>>
>>>
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