I have a win2000 server, one of 2 DC's. The KBarticle Q172060 describes my problem, but we do have a DNS server configured for the computer.... ping localhost returns 127.0.0.1 - fine.. ping returns 127.0.0.1 - not so fine nslookup: *** Default servers are not available Default Server: UnKnown Address: 127.0.0.1 ____________ nslookup *** Default servers are not available Server: UnKnown Address: 127.0.0.1 Name: .qdomain.questus.no Address: 192.168.0.45 ____________ nslookup Server: .qdomain.questus.no Address: 192.168.0.50 Name: .qdomain.questus.no Address: 192.168.0.45 ____________ Netdiag Failed to get information for a network adapter. The error occurred was: The pipe is being closed. (232)[FATAL] Cannot find TCP/IP configuration from the registry. _____________ It seems to me that the computer defaults to using 127.0.0.1 for nameresolution.... why..? ping www.whitehouse.org Unknown host www.whitehouse.org. But it still resolves other hosts on the local network: ping Pinging [192.168.0.13] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 192.168.0.13: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms This host is on the LAN as you can see. Anybody know what's going on with this DC? McEve

Are your Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones configured properly? Check there.

checked and double checked. It seems the computer can't find the DNS server, as it seems to believe it's ip adress is = localhost ..Ping returns 127.0.0.1

On the property sheet for the NIC, do you have it's own IP address listed as the DNS server address? If not, enter that in the TCP/IP properties and see if that doesn't resolve the issue.

It does have it's own address as alternate DNS.