Microsoft KB Archive/259435

= DNS Site Records Are Not Properly Removed After Dcpromo =

Article ID: 259435

Article Last Modified on 2/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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This article was previously published under Q259435



SYMPTOMS
When you create a new site, you may have a situation where at the time you created the site it did not contain domain controllers. The following event is displayed in Event Viewer:

Event Type: Information

Event Source: NETLOGON

Event Category: None

Event ID: 5784

Date: 3/16/2000

Time: 2:07:47 PM

User: N/A

Computer: DCN1

Description:

Site 'TestSite' does not have any Domain Controllers for domain 'ROOT'. Domain Controllers in site 'Site1' have been automatically selected to cover site 'TestSite' based on configured Directory Server replication costs.

This is expected behavior and allows domain controllers from other sites to function as domain controllers for your newly created site, based on the most efficient cost figure.

After you bring up a domain controller in your newly created site, the following event is logged on the domain controller that was temporarily covering your newly created site:

Event Type: Information

Event Source: NETLOGON

Event Category: None

Event ID: 5785

Date: 3/16/2000

Time: 2:12:49 PM

User: N/A

Computer: DCN1

Description:

This Domain Controller no longer automatically covers site 'TestSite'.

This event notifies you that the new domain controller that you just brought up in your new site is now identified as the domain controller for the new site. However, if you review the DNS SRV records, the domain controller in the other site that was temporarily covering your new site is still listed as a domain controller in your newly created site.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Netlogon did not clean up the old records.

After Event ID 5785 is logged, Netlogon should remove the records so that only the domain controllers that are created in the new site reflect that their location is in that site, and any domain controllers that were temporarily covering this site are removed so that clients are not validated by a domain controller that is at another site.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, manually delete the DNS SRV records.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Additional query words: site remove clear promote

Keywords: kbbug kbdcpromo kberrmsg kbpending KB259435

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