Hey,

First, my setup. We're running a Windows Server 2008 system as a PDC in a lab of about 40 PCs and 20 users. We have 1 forward zone, and three reverse zones (1 IPv4 & 2 IPv6.) As a backup, we have two other Server 2008 boxes running as secondary DNS servers. The two secondary servers also run DHCP and WDS. I have set zone transfers on the PDC to allow to any server.

The problem is that every so often (randomly) DNS zone transfers are incomplete. I may have 50 records in my zone, but only 6 or 10 will actually transfer to the secondary servers. I can usually get a complete transfer by restarting the DNS service on the secondary servers followed by a manual "transfer from master"/refresh. This is happening intermittently with both forward and reverse zones.

I believe the problem is on the PDC, but I am stumped at this point.

Any ideas?

Thanks

What does the event viewer say? Post your logs from dns server manager

Is your network being choked by high levels of traffic?

dexter.inside, thanks. The network is quite small, and there is not a great deal of traffic, so I do not believe that to be an issue.

I checked the logs and I doubt they are worth posting. There are no errors/warnings except for early when I was still building the server. All of the "information" events are event 6001 which are notifications of zone transfers, and one event id 4 which states background loading of the zones completed.

are these AD intergrated Zone?

Yes they are.

I am having the same issues with zone incomplete transfers using 2008 Server DNS. I am at a loss on this one so I am opening a ticket with MS to see if this is some known bug. If anyone gets information onj this one before I do please share with the rest of us.

I am as stuck in the same bureaucratic mess as you are

I made another post over at the Technet forums. Apparently MS may have a fix according to the last poster.

http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/...5-39c5d458a6d0/