I have a rather odd quandry. I am a home DSL user who wants to run a win2k server. I have a single static ip that terminates at my modem. From there to the router it's 192.168.7.1 and from the router throughout the LAN it's in the 192.168.1.X range, reserving 192.168.1.2 for the server box. I want to run Exchange which requires AD, which requires DNS. Here's the problem. The AD wants to remove entries in the zone that don't "seem" to fit, although they actually do. I set my nic card to use my ISP given DNS servers and changed the local DNS server to use standard primaries. I then removed all the AD "junk" from it. I set the zone to reject dynamic updates and edited the registry to turn of UseDynamicDns and RegisterDnsARecords for the NETLOGON service. This SHOULD deactivate the whole system of dynamic updates so that my local DNS server can be setup to answer ONLY to outside requests, seperating it from the AD scenario. This way, nothing but my outside static ip is used within the zone file and not the servers actual ip of 192.168.1.2. Well, it does, but there's a problem. Netlogon is STILL trying to update the DNS records and I STILL get the 5773 error!!! I have all servicepacks and patches available applied and I am at a loss.