{"id":499,"date":"2022-08-16T14:19:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:25:10","slug":"dns-server-was-unable-to-open-active-directory-event-id-4000-event-id-4007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"DNS server was unable to open Active Directory &#8211; Event ID 4000 Event ID 4007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Event ID 4000<\/strong>: The DNS server was unable to open Active Directory.&nbsp; This DNS server is configured to obtain and use information from the directory for this zone and is unable to load the zone without it. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly and reload the zone. The event data is the error code.<\/li><li><strong>Event id 4007<\/strong>: The DNS server was unable to open zone &lt;zone&gt; in the Active Directory from the application directory partition &lt;partition name&gt;. This DNS server is configured to obtain and use information from the directory for this zone and is unable to load the zone without it. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly and reload the zone. The event data is the error code.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In case the DC had lost trust with itself the solution (according to the KB article) was to reset the DC password. Not sure how that would reset trust, but apparently it does. This involves using the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc785478.aspx?f=255&amp;MSPPError=-2147217396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><code>netdom<\/code>&nbsp;command<\/a>&nbsp;which is installed on Server 2008 and up (as well as on Windows 8 or if RSAT is installed and can be downloaded for 2003 from the Support Tools package). The command has to be&nbsp;<em>run on the computer whose password you want to reset<\/em>&nbsp;(so you must login with an account whose initials are cached, or use a local account). Then run the command thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td> netdom resetpwd \/server:&lt;PDC.domain.com> \/userd:&lt;Domain\\domain_admin> \/passwordd:* <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>netdom resetpwd \/server:athena.atbx.local \/userd:atbx\\admin \/passwordd:urpassword<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>share link from  <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/fixing-the-dns-server-was-unable-to-open-active-directory-errors\/\">Fixing \u201cThe DNS server was unable to open Active Directory\u201d errors \u2013 rakhesh.com<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event ID 4000: The DNS server was unable to open Active Directory.&nbsp; This DNS server is configured to obtain and use information from the directory for this zone and is unable to load the zone without it. Check that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-directory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}