Missing folders in DNS forward lookup zone

[elquiff]

I appear to be missing folders in forward lookup zone
_msdcs
_sites
_tcp
_udp

Could someone point me in the right direction of how to recreate them.

Thanks in advance

 

[mlichstein]

Make sure the DC is pointing to that DNS server and make sure dynamic updates is enabled on the zone. Then do an ipconfig /flushdns and the stop and start the netlogon service.

If they do not come back after doing that, you have other issues going on.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Need more info. Were they there or is this a new setup? If not new, how long gone. Is the machine that is missing these folders the dns server? If so, it should be pointing to itself.

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[elquiff]

Will try your suggestions mlichstein when next in office (much appreciated)

I am not sure if they were there at install as didn't do the initial setup, would suggest they have probably been gone a while (sorry for vagueness). Yes the server is the dns server that is missing the folders.

The initial question came about as I have been looking at a possible replication between two w2k server located in different offices on separate domains. There are no probs on the lan where this server resides that I am aware of at present.

Thanks for your help