Cannot create a new domain controller

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We have an issue at the moment where we cannot promote an existing
member server on our Windows 2000 domain to a domain controller. The
history to this is as follows:

We had two domain controllers running Active Directory for a single
domain. There is only one domain in the forest. One of these machines
died (as in the disk failed and could not be recovered). Since then, I
created a new member server with a view to then promoting it to a DC.
However, I always get the following error message:

"The operation failed because:

Failed finding a suitable domain controller for domain cromwells.co.uk

The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted".

For obvious reasons we need to have a second domain controller in place
on this domain.

I've heard that this issue is because of incorrectly-configured DNS,
however we are not running DNS on any of the Windows servers on the
domain. The DNS is being run on a Linux server on the same LAN, which
is not part of the domain. This has been running the DNS without any
problems for at least two years.

Please, any ideas? Email swilliams@cromwells.co.uk

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.dns (More info?)

In news:1117100976.983274.137100@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com,
swilliams@cromwells.co.uk <swilliams@cromwells.co.uk> posted this:
> We have an issue at the moment where we cannot promote an existing
> member server on our Windows 2000 domain to a domain controller. The
> history to this is as follows:
>
> We had two domain controllers running Active Directory for a single
> domain. There is only one domain in the forest. One of these machines
> died (as in the disk failed and could not be recovered). Since then, I
> created a new member server with a view to then promoting it to a DC.
> However, I always get the following error message:
>
> "The operation failed because:
>
> Failed finding a suitable domain controller for domain cromwells.co.uk
>
> The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted".
>
> For obvious reasons we need to have a second domain controller in
> place on this domain.
>
> I've heard that this issue is because of incorrectly-configured DNS,
> however we are not running DNS on any of the Windows servers on the
> domain. The DNS is being run on a Linux server on the same LAN, which
> is not part of the domain. This has been running the DNS without any
> problems for at least two years.
>
> Please, any ideas? Email swilliams@cromwells.co.uk

It is recommended to run the zone for the AD domain on the Domain
Controllers for zone security reasons. You can run the AD DNS on Linux,
provided all records for the DCs are properly created in the BIND DNS zone.
If the domain doesn't exist or cannot be contacted then it is likely that
the all the records are not created. Run netdiag /test:dns /debug on the DC
to find what records are missing and create the records.


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