[tkloppel]

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

[dexter.inside]

tkloppel, on Jul 15 2008, 03:43 PM, said:

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

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

Is your network being choked by high levels of traffic?

[tkloppel]

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.

[fizban2]

are these AD intergrated Zone?

[tkloppel]

fizban2, on Jul 16 2008, 04:32 PM, said:

are these AD intergrated Zone?

Yes they are.

[Angry_Yeti]

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.

[dexter.inside]

Angry_Yeti, on Jul 30 2008, 07:00 PM, said:

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

[tkloppel]

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/