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psalomonsen
Asked: 2010-05-06 04:17:42 +0800 CST

Adding 2008 Server to 2008 Domain

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I'm trying to create a lab for testing before I deploy solutions, I'm no experienced IT Administrator, and therefore I come here for help.

I'm running 2 Virtual Servers on the same machine on a local connection between those two. They'are able to ping each other. Their names is TSDATA1 and TSDATA2 where TSDATA1 is the Domain Controller. I am able to ping between those two, on both "ping TSDATA1" and "ping 10.0.0.1" which is the IP address of TSDATA1. The IP address of TSDATA2 is 10.0.0.2.

I'm trying to join the domain with TSDATA2 both I'm getting this error when trying:

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The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller for domain tsdata.local:

The error was: "DNS name does not exist." (error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.tsdata.local

Common causes of this error include the following:

  • The DNS SRV records required to locate a AD DC for the domain are not registered in DNS. These records are registered with a DNS server automatically when a AD DC is added to a domain. They are updated by the AD DC at set intervals. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the following IP addresses:

10.0.0.1

  • One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child zone:

tsdata.local local . (the root zone)

For information about correcting this problem, click Help.

I've figured out it has something to do with DNS lookup, but I have no clue what to do.

Can anyone help?

windows-server-2008 domain-name-system domain-controller

3 Answers

  1. Have you installed the DNS service on the domain controller when you created the domain?

    To verify DNS is actually up and running, try doing a ping tsdata1.tsdata.local on both servers.

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  2. There could be a problem with DNS requests being resolved as you are on a .local domain. See this question for more details.

    If possible, rename the domain to something else (such as tsdata.office). If that isn't possible, then make sure you don't have any multicast dns resolves running on the computers (as they're fresh servers I can't see that you'll have iTunes on them).

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  3. Best Answer

    The error is stating that it cannot find the SRV record for the domain that you have created. _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.tsdata.local is the entry that says (esentially) "look here if you need to query for a domain controller" DNS is the backbone of active directory and if that record is missing there is likely other important bits missing first.

    Probably the simplest way to resolve this is to rebuild your domain. Run dcpromo on your domain controller and remove AD DS. Once it's removed ensure that DNS is set up properly first by making sure tha you have the tdata.local zone set up properly and both machines register themselves dynamically in that zone. Once that is done promote tsdata1 back to being a DC (I suspect you will notice the process procede a little faster than before) then try to add tsdata2 to the domain

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