Good morning/afternoon,
When installing Active Directory, in the DNS configuration phase, it couldn't contact RPC. RPC is fine though. What I noticed is when the DNS Server starts, it stops a few seconds after, no error is shown in the Event Viewer.
Log Name: DNS Server
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Server-Service
Date: 1/21/2013 8:09:47 PM
Event ID: 3
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: _______________
Description:
The DNS server has shut down.
Event Xml:<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System><Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Server-Service" Guid="{71A551F5-C893-4849-886B-B5EC8502641E}" EventSourceName="DNS" /><EventID Qualifiers="16384">3</EventID><Version>0</Version><Level>4</Level><Task>0</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-22T01:09:47.000000000Z" /><EventRecordID>18</EventRecordID><Correlation /><Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" /><Channel>DNS Server</Channel><Computer>WIN-IRVI1HGLGNH.mmrmd.net</Computer><Security /></System><EventData Name="DNS_EVENT_SHUTDOWN"></EventData></Event>
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Log Name: DNS Server
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Server-Service
Date: 1/21/2013 8:09:41 PM
Event ID: 708
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ______
Description:
The DNS server did not detect any zones of either primary or secondary type during initialization. It will not be authoritative for any zones, and it will run as a caching-only server until a zone is loaded manually or by Active Directory replication. For more information, see the online Help.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System><Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Server-Service" Guid="{71A551F5-C893-4849-886B-B5EC8502641E}" EventSourceName="DNS" /><EventID Qualifiers="16384">708</EventID><Version>0</Version><Level>4</Level><Task>0</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-22T01:09:41.000000000Z" /><EventRecordID>17</EventRecordID><Correlation /><Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" /><Channel>DNS Server</Channel><Computer>WIN-IRVI1HGLGNH.mmrmd.net</Computer><Security /></System><EventData Name="DNS_EVENT_CACHING_SERVER_ONLY"><Binary></Binary></EventData></Event>Thanks,
Miguel R.