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Windows DNS is the Microsoft implementation of the name resolution protocol for TCP/IP networks, such as the Internet. Client computers query a DNS server to resolve memorable, alphanumeric DNS names to the IP addresses that computers use to communicate with each other.

Windows DNS is the Microsoft implementation of the name resolution protocol for TCP/IP networks, such as the Internet. Client computers query a DNS server to resolve memorable, alphanumeric DNS names to the IP addresses that computers use to communicate with each other.

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SSHFP records on Windows DNS Server

How can I add SSHFP records (or any arbitrary records) on Windows DNS Server? I'm running a DC with Windows 2012 R2 and would like to put the SSH keys of the Unix servers on the DNS.
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Non-FQDN Intranet Subdomain

I have a production server and a development server. Each has their own CNAME record so employees don't have to type in the NetBIOS name of each machine. Lets say they're myapp and myappdev. I've set up IIS with a number of virtual hosts so I have…
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Secondary DNS server being used more often?

I have two Windows DNS instances. One is on an older physical machine with Windows 2008, the other is on a Hyper-V guest with Windows 2012 R2. The latter is the primary DNS. I've noticed that the amount of cached forwarded requests on my secondary…
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Is it safe to add parent domain as additional zone within DNS?

Our internal Windows domain is ad.company.co.uk. When we try to access mail.company.co.uk (for OWA or Outlook Anywhere, as an example), it resolves to the external IP address of the router and gets stuck due to the router's inability to have…
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How to forward internal domain queries to external DNS

Please excuse the mangled terminology ;) You have a Windows DNS server handling internal traffic for the yourco.com domain. You want just the external website (www.yourco.com) to be ultimately resolved from a public DNS server such as your ISP's…
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Computers using ::1 for DNS server on DHCP ipv6

When ever i look at ipconfig /all i see that my computers are getting ::1 for the first DNS server from my dhcp server. I have removed this entry from the list of DNS server in the options, but the computer continue to try and use ::1 for the first…
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enable large DNS queries on Microsoft 2008 R2 DNS server

When I run the Network analyzer at http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/ it reports: The resolver at could not process the following tested types: Medium (~1300B) TXT records Large (~3000B) TXT records It does not validate DNSSEC. It does not…
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Internal DNS for non domain users

At the company I am at we have an Active Directory setup with an DNS server. All the computers that are part of the domain can resolve name from the DNS server with no problem. The current issue is for computers that are not part of the domain.…
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Two CNAME records being resolved differently (Windows 2003 Server)

Note: this is a followup to an earlier question after further investigation. The issue (so far) seems to be isolated to a Win2003 DNS server (though I haven't tried other server-types) The questions is also (as of 2010-02-24) open as an MSDN Forum…
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Windows DNS Server (2012 R2): SRVFAIL ("Server Failure") when resolving it's own hostname

I don't know if this matters, but I'm troubleshooting a LOB that's crashing intermittently, so why not dig into the ol' DNS on WireShark? I'm seeing regular (like every few minutes) "Server Failure" (SRVFAIL) replies back to the client, for A record…
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DNS reply to redirect client to another DNS server

I have a client which uses a DNS server (ServerA), and ServerA works fine for all domains For a specific domain though, I need to use a DNS Server (ServerB) which ServerA cannot access, but the client can. The Windows client is unable to use domain…
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Require authoritative answer for DNS resolution

We have two forward lookup zones (intranet.com and mayberry.com) that aren't actually registered to us. Sometimes, our MS DNS server forwards the queries for network resources within these domains to OpenDNS, who is our forwarder. OpenDNS then…
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Microsoft Windows 2012 dns server loses connectivity to root hint servers

We are experiencing an odd situation, our DNS/domain controllers keep losing there ability to connect to the root hint servers. This lasts for about 5 minutes and happens a few time everyday. We have hopped on the DNS server while this is happening…
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Windows 2012 R2 DNS SERVFAIL on linux / mac clients

SERVFAIL is causing issues with some of our applications on linux/macs. I presume this is Windows DNS causing some problems with our linux/mac clients? Then again Windows clients are able to do shortname lookup without any issue. From a Mac/Centos…
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Windows DNS Server: 3 seconds before NXDOMAIN response

I'm wondering if there is a way to control the time required before an NXDOMAIN response is given. It seems to me that if a query is made for a record that doesn't exist, it takes 3 seconds before the server replies with NXDOMAIN. This appears to be…
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