Re: For those using MS-DNS

Michael Whisenant ( mwhisen@airnet.net )
Wed, 01 Jul 1998 17:57:24 -0500

Tech-Net subscription will get you a monthly CD with all patches and tech
notes. It beats hunting on the MS web site, yet if you FTP there and
change to the hot fixes dir you can find all the files....

At 01:49 PM 7/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Where can you get the Hot Fix? I didn't see it on the MS site.
>
> Walter
>
>At 11:09 AM 7/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>> From: rkm <rkm@marshall.net>
>>> Went thru a period of this with one of our servers.. wound up that it was
>>> after we had added some virtual IP's to the box... DNS service was
>>running
>>> but not working. We removed and reinstalled the service and haven't had
>>the
>>> problem since. BTW on the reinstall it did pick up all the previous DNS
>>> records.
>>
>>Make sure you install the post-SP3 hotfix for DNS after you reinstall the
>>DNS service. We've been using MS DNS since NT4 came out and haven't had a
>>single problem with it since 12/96. It acts as our primary DNS and as
>>secondary for a few virtually hosted domains that originally had their
>>primary DNS settings pointing to a Unix machine a while back.
>>
>>Josh Hillman
>>hillman@talstar.com
>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com
>>> > [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Victor Alba
>>> > Sent: Monday, June 29, 1998 3:07 PM
>>> > To: ntisp@iea-software.com
>>> > Subject: RE: For those using MS-DNS
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > At 03:05 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>> > >Did you use NSLOOKUP or any similar tools to verify the
>>> > condition of the DNS
>>> > >server? Just because the DNS service is running doesn't mean it is
>>> > >responding to requests...
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I sure did and MS-DNS responded with DNS time outs all the times,
>>> > why? Any
>>> > ideas..?
>>> > There were zero errors in event viewer...
>>> >
>>> > -Victor
>>> >
>>> >
>>
>>
>
Michael J. Whisenant
Vice-President, Operations
AIRnet Internet Services, Inc.
ph: (256) 704-4692 fax: (256) 704-2329