Windows 2008 DNS Headache Prevention
The Active Directory team at Microsoft has found and fixed a particularly annoying bug with DNS, standard secondary zones (not AD Integrated) and Windows Server 2008.
“In a nutshell, the DNS Server service in Windows Server 2008 has a bug that can result in a large number of DNS records disappearing. When those records go missing, you will start seeing problems with anything that depends on name resolution, which in an Active Directory environment is pretty much everything. Note this hotfix only applies to standard secondary zones. Active Directory-integrated zones are not affected by this issue because they use AD replication, not zone transfers, to stay synchronized.”
So, if your clients are going down this path, make sure that this hotfix is applied. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953317
Original Blog Post is at http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2009/02/12/headache-prevention-install-hotfix-953317-to-prevent-dns-records-from-disappearing.aspx
February 13, 2009
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