Ensuring Server Modules Are Running As A Service
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008One of our servers is located at a data center for reliability & better bandwidth. We are managing it via remote desktop. I know that this isn’t a secure method but it has been that way since years ago, there ought to be a better way to do it but our site administrators haven’t got any idea to do it nor is too worried so far.
The server is also serving as the authoritative nameserver for some 30 odd domains and primary authoritative nameserver for two of it. It is also not using the DNS server that is built-in to Windows 2000 Server but a third party software know as Simple DNS.
The two domains who emails are also hosted on this server seems to have problem receiving mails. Upon checking, we realise that the zone information for these two domains are not available. When we query direct, we also get no response but when we log on to the server, the DNS server was running fine.
We also realise that the zone information is available when we log on and finally realise that Simple DNS was not set to run as a service which it was previously. By enabling it, all zone information propagated properly soon after.