[Cialug] Off topic - Windows Help

[Josh More]

Does nslookup for the DC work against the DC?

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Kevin Smith <kevin at linuxsmith.com> wrote:
> Ran into something odd and the Internets isn't much help. Need to  fix this
> by Monday, so any suggestions would be great. I may be willing to hire a
> Windows server guru if I don't get this figured out by today.
>
> When trying to add a computer to the new Windows Domain Controller we are
> getting the error a the bottom. We've tried the common answers from Google
> searches, I think something is bad with the DNS? We can ping the DC
> hostname and FQDN. So, I'm confused. Any ideas.
>
> ---------------------------
> Computer Name/Domain Changes
> ---------------------------
> The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "msl":
>
> An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain
> being joined has failed.  Please verify this client is configured to reach
> a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target domain. For
> information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
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