Guest Saqib Ali Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 We have "some" machines that fail to register with the dynamic DNS. The machines are all part of the Active Directory, and I can see the machines in the Computer OU. However nslookup on the machine name fails. This only happens with a handful of machines. The rest of them register with the DNS fine. All the machine are identical. We use BIND for dynamic DNS. I have already tried uninstalling / reinstalling the network driver, repairing the TCP/IP stack, and re-installing the Printer and File Sharing client. Anyway to force the machine to register itself with the DNS? saqib http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption
Guest Ryan Hanisco Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 RE: client machine not registering with DNS Saqib Ali, I take it you've already tried running ipconfig /registerdns on the workstations. This will force the workstation to make the request to update DNS. If it is not working from there, I would have you start looking at network or permissions problems. If you have the right DNS server specified, this should do it... even for BIND. Good luck!! -- Ryan Hanisco MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+ Chicago, IL Remember: Marking helpful answers helps everyone find the info they need quickly. "Saqib Ali" wrote: > We have "some" machines that fail to register with the dynamic DNS. > The machines are all part of the Active Directory, and I can see the > machines in the Computer OU. However nslookup on the machine name > fails. This only happens with a handful of machines. The rest of them > register with the DNS fine. All the machine are identical. > > We use BIND for dynamic DNS. > > I have already tried uninstalling / reinstalling the network driver, > repairing the TCP/IP stack, and re-installing the Printer and File > Sharing client. > > Anyway to force the machine to register itself with the DNS? > > saqib > http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption > >
Guest Saqib Ali Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: client machine not registering with DNS > I take it you've already tried running ipconfig /registerdns on the > workstations. yup already did that few times. It says: "Registration of the DNS resource records for all adapters of this computer has been initiated. Any errors will be reported in the Event Viewer in 15 minutes.." But the client machine still does register. And there are no entries in the Event Log related to the issue. :-( saqib http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption
Guest Coraleigh Miller Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: client machine not registering with DNS Hi Saqib, Is it possible that there is another server in your network serving DHCP which is not connected to your DNS server? Just out of curiosity can you nslookup after manually entering the DNS ips in the nic? Is the DNS the only issue with the workstations connectivity, are you able to browse the network from an affected workstation using IPs? Coraleigh Miller "Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184813642.937941.287750@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > We have "some" machines that fail to register with the dynamic DNS. > The machines are all part of the Active Directory, and I can see the > machines in the Computer OU. However nslookup on the machine name > fails. This only happens with a handful of machines. The rest of them > register with the DNS fine. All the machine are identical. > > We use BIND for dynamic DNS. > > I have already tried uninstalling / reinstalling the network driver, > repairing the TCP/IP stack, and re-installing the Printer and File > Sharing client. > > Anyway to force the machine to register itself with the DNS? > > saqib > http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption >
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