For more information about Event Viewer, see "Troubleshooting Tools" earlier in this chapter.

Use the following process to verify that your DNS server is started and can answer queries.

Follow the Important for configuration section below for further assistance. You can send email from [email protected]_from the server without any problem.However in the past I have seen strange behavior with the GPO settings below Administrative Templates\Network\DNS client section, and today was just the same. Below Computer Configuration DNS Client there is a setting called “Register PTR Records”.One could think that this is pretty easy to configure, enable, throw a gpupdate in and off we go.The setting with some additional info: Although the policy came through just fine, even after a reboot, my client was not registering his PTR record…So I used my 24/7 available free of charge consultant-helpline called google.If you use either the Configure DNS Server wizard or the Active Directory Installation wizard to install your Windows 2000 DNS server, most configuration tasks are performed automatically and you can avoid many common configuration errors, but you might still want to perform the tests in this section.Before checking anything else, check the event log for errors.If the resolver cannot locate a PTR resource record for the server, you see an error message, but you are still able to perform the tests in this section.To verify the zone is responding correctly, simulate a zone transfer by typing the following: ls -d If the server is configured to restrict zone transfers, you might see an error message in Event Viewer.Because of the shared nature of the Grid, the reverse DNS record for the server is already set.It will come up as something similar to abcdefg.gs0x.Update [27/06/2013]: new information regarding the topic: Windows 7 & Reverse Lookup DNS Registration [Update] In my current project we have an Active Directory domain where we use Windows DNS servers with domain integrated DNS zones.For the reverse lookup zones we configured secure only updates.As we noticed that only Windows 7 workstations with a static IP were being registered we started troubleshooting.As an AD guy I was 100% confident we could get this done using GPO’s.