DNS not responding/forwarding until a user has logged on the server

[Guest Guest]

As above. The DNS server is not responding until a user is logged on the server. well actually it may only apply to requests which need forwarding onto the internet; i will post back once i confirm this.

 

Anyone ever heard of this happening, any suggestions??

[Guest Guest]

Its just when forwarding onto the internet. Really strage problem as it only when theres noone logged onto the DNS server. As soon as i loog on everything works, i log back off and it doesnt.

[ful56_uk]

whats the dns server service doing? log off the server then from a workstation go to computer managment and run a remote connection from that mmc to the server and check the status of the dns server service.

[box_l]

what credentials id the DNS service running under?

has it accidentally got the "interact with desktop" thing ticked?

 

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[ful56_uk]

select local system account radio box, dont tick the box allow service to interact with desktop , restart the service and see what happens

[Guest Guest]

Cheers for the replys people. Tryed all theose already; its running under the system account as it should, starts on startup as expected with no errors. It responds to internal queries but just not ones bound for t'internet.

 

Probably related is we lost a few of our Root Hints today causing lose of/intermitant internet access. Fixed this and everything seems fine... but only when someones logged on!

Edited September 29, 2008 by Guest