We got the message "AN ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE THE DNS NAME OF A DC IN THE DOMAIN BEING JOINED HAS FAILED! PLEASE VERIFY THIS CLIENT IS CONFIGURED TO REACH A DNS SERVER THAT CAN RESOLVE DNS NAMES IN THE TARGET DOMAIN."
We checked all the setting and everything was correct.
We checked through Google and we found a lot of posts relating to this problem but not many where the problem was resolved.
We looked on the Microsoft Technet with the same result.
We tried taking a newly installed Windows 7 machine and adding it to our own domain (Windows 2003) and there were no problems. This points to the server being the issue.
We referred to our copy of Stanek Administrators guide and on Page 218 we found a command line utility called dnscmd.exe. We ran this utility and found that the DNS server was listening on IP address 192.168.0.2. The only local adaptor was on IP address 192.168.0.210 so this was a problem.
We fixed the DNS set up on the server. The following link will tell you how to restrict the DNS listening devices click here so please amend to your needs
Once we had done this the new computer joined the domain without problem
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