I have a Windows Server 2003. It is connected to a number of networked databases but stopped working this morning. It was receiving DNS from an old DC which we have just retired. I tried to change the settings manually. Afterwards it asked to be restarted. After I restarted it booted back up with the old DNS settings again. Nightmare. I have also discovered an old XP box with the same issue. I am not sure what is doing this. It is picking up DHCP from the correct server which is also one of 2 DNS servers. The DHCP server is set with the right DNS server addresses. However I cant point this one server at it or leave it blank as it changes the DNS back. Please help.
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Check Resultant Set of Policy. Somebody may have used the evil, nasty mechanism in Group Policy that can be used to specify DNS server addresses.
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Manually set the IP and DNS settings for it. Don't allow an auto assigned DHCP address but use an address from the DHCP pool.