Have you ever installed the DNS Server service as part of the promotion of a new DC, to end up wondering how this new DNS Server got automatically configured to use forwarders and root-hints? Have you noticed that this process also adds the loopback adapter...

One common deployment scenario for the DHCP Server service is to have it installed in domain controllers. When this scenario is used it is necessary to define the alternate credentials to be used by DHCP when doing DNS registrations on behalf of the DHCP...

In the first part of this blog post I described the behavior of the DNS client when there are multiple entries in the DNS servers list. In this second part I will try to explain how the Windows DNS Client works when dealing with timeouts and retries....

Some time ago I was helping a customer with a case related to the Windows DNS client. This customer was getting inconsistent name resolution results and he wanted to know why this was happening. The issue that this customer faced was related to the configuration...