pls help Error on my Server 2003

[James Ezekwe]

Hello house, am having the following issue on my server 2003 event log. pls help out with suggestions on how to solve the problem

Process STORE.EXE (PID=6620). Exchange Active Directory Provider failed to obtain DNS records for domain avi-cenna.local. DNS Priority and Weight for the Domain Controllers in this domain will be set to the default values 0 (priority) and 100 (weight).

[xendrome]

store.exe is Exchange 2003, and you've got something going on with your DNS servers, make sure DNS Server is started in services.msc - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/ee/transform.aspx?ProdName=Exchange&ProdVer=8.0&EvtID=2105&EvtSrc=MSExchange+ADAccess

[i11usive]

DNS issues -- google on how to troubleshoot / fix AD DNS problems...

[+BudMan MVC]

So clearly that is a nonpublic domain avi-cenna.local, so ask because it is so common its not funny. Is your exchange server even pointing to your AD dns?

All MEMBERS of a domain need to point to ONLY AD DNS! Your AD dns then either queries directly to ROOTS for non AD domains, or domains he is not authoritative for or he forwards the request to some other server that can do the recursive lookup for said domain. Say your ISP dns, some other caching server on your network that queries your ISP, or googledns, opendns, etc.

Members of domain should ONLY point to AD DNS, having other servers in the list can cause problems. Example your AD dns is 192.168.1.100, so something like

192.168.1.100

8.8.8.8

is not right.