DHCP 2 Subnets 2 Physical Locations

Hello.

Here's the situation. The company i work for is moving its warehouse
to a new building. I've just started to get the network up and running
at this new location. I have a window 2003 standard server in place to
start with. I configured it while at the old building to be a Domain
Controller. After placing it at the new location I added both the DNS
and DHCP server role. AD replication is working fine but I am a little
unsure about the best way to configure DNS at this new Site. These
locations are on diffrent subnets. SITE A (OLD) is a 16 bit network
and SITE B (NEW) is a 24 bit network. Should I create a new DNS zone
for SITE B???

Also, DHCP is not working for this server. I authorized the server and
activated the scope. I checked the event logs and it says that 'this
server is now authorized to service clients', but none of the clients
can get an ip address offered. The DHCP stats indicate that the server
is receiving requests but not leasing addresses. I went ahead and
configured the firewall at SITE B as DHCP and it is working fine, but
eventually would like the DC to handle DHCP. Also SITE A has a working
DHCP server, could this be causing a conflict.


Thanks A Lot for your help.

No, you do not need a new DNS zone. You should probably make a new AD site
for this subnet. and use ad intergarted DNS to use AD to replicate between
the two dns servers.

DHCP is a pretty straight foward server, it usually just works. I got
nothing there.

"JBLaze" wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Here's the situation. The company i work for is moving its warehouse
> to a new building. I've just started to get the network up and running
> at this new location. I have a window 2003 standard server in place to
> start with. I configured it while at the old building to be a Domain
> Controller. After placing it at the new location I added both the DNS
> and DHCP server role. AD replication is working fine but I am a little
> unsure about the best way to configure DNS at this new Site. These
> locations are on diffrent subnets. SITE A (OLD) is a 16 bit network
> and SITE B (NEW) is a 24 bit network. Should I create a new DNS zone
> for SITE B???
>
> Also, DHCP is not working for this server. I authorized the server and
> activated the scope. I checked the event logs and it says that 'this
> server is now authorized to service clients', but none of the clients
> can get an ip address offered. The DHCP stats indicate that the server
> is receiving requests but not leasing addresses. I went ahead and
> configured the firewall at SITE B as DHCP and it is working fine, but
> eventually would like the DC to handle DHCP. Also SITE A has a working
> DHCP server, could this be causing a conflict.
>
>
> Thanks A Lot for your help.
>
>