I am having a problem with DNS on the main server at my place of employment. Upon reboot of the server a message appears during configuring network connections that “At least one service or drive failed during system startup. Use event viewer to examine the event log for details.” When I check the event log no recent information is recorded but back approx 2 weeks ago I notice under DNS that information states that the DNS server has shut down. The message immediately prior to this states that The DNS server could not signal the service NAT. The error was 1168. There may be interoperability problems between the DNS service and this service.
After further investigation I have found that DNS is not loading on the main server. I cannot access the DNS snap in (management console). Although DNS is not loading on the machine I can still ping computer on the lan using there name instead of IP which indicates that DNS on the LAN is working From this machine. I should mention that we do have a secondary server running 2003 and a Linux machine for internet connections running Squid proxy server. My place of employment is a library so we have business systems and public access machines. Most of the machines are running properly with url resolution. There are how ever several machines that are only allow access to certain websites (configured through Squid ACLs) that cannot resolve the urls.
Has anyone run into this problems or is their anyone out there who knows what could be causing this problem.
Thanks in advance.
Craig S