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Robvd
18-08-2011, 09:29 PM
Hi Guys

I have been having some issues with one of our clients DNS Server, they called me on Tuesday to say that some websites are working and some not, which I found odd...I logged onto the server had a look at the events etc but found nothing..before I troubleshooted any further they notified me that all was up and running again.
As I was realllly busy I left it there.
Today they called again having the same issue, I once again logged onto the server, this time doing a tracert to the affected websites, the result was an immediate cannot resolve..
I checked all services were running, restarted the Dns server service..and all is up and running again...thing is what caused this.:confused:..there is no event registered for any of this.

I then did some research and found that there is a hotfix that Microsoft released for the EXACT same issue...but the hotfix only applies to Server 2008 R2??

What would you guys suggest?

bekdik
18-08-2011, 10:01 PM
Check your forwarders, maybe these need changing? Also flush your cache.

Robvd
18-08-2011, 10:10 PM
Check your forwarders, maybe these need changing? Also flush your cache.

There is no forwarders set, and I did flush the cache as well which I forgot to mention lol.

Robvd
22-08-2011, 04:53 PM
So... after some blood sweat and tears I managed to find the solution.

Seems like there is a knwn issue with SBS2008 and DNS using root hints.
I cleared the root hints and configured DNS forwarders... working like a charm!

Happy camper again! :D