hello. We have a main office and two branch offices. The main office has two Win2003 SP1 domain controllers and the branch offices each have one. I believe our sites, site links, and costs are set up correctly but I am not sure. When I browse the domain (Start - Run - \\domain.local), sometimes it contacts the DC here in the main office, but sometimes one of the remote DCs responds to the request. Same reaction when I ping "domain.local"... sometimes it's one of the local DCs, and sometimes it pings a remote DC. Any thoughts? What is misconfigured?
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Active directory sites issue
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Have you configured the Subnets, normally you'd normally have to associate a particular subnet to a particular site and hence the particular DC(s). Blow by blow here
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Yes, thanks... should have mentioned that all DCs are global catalogs, all subnets are in the correct site. All DCs are DNS servers. One more thing that might help: I ping "domain.local" and my local DC responds. Then I run ipconfig /flushdns and ping "domain.local" again, and a remote DC responds. Or vice versa... after a dns flush, a different DC responds. Why would my local DC not respond each time if it is available? They are not busy.
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