Trouble shooting DNS question

[techwanabe]

If the DNS server (Windows 2000 box) stops responding to a client, and I am able to successfully ping the DNS server from the workstation, what would be the next step in trouble shooting this?

I'm guessing that NSLOOKUP would be logical? Should I see if the server will respond using the nslookup command

or

verify DNS registrations for domain controllers (again nslookup)?

or

renew DNS client registration with ipconfig /renew?

Thanks

 

[kkdeals]

try release/renew with ipconfig
but i am not sure if it's going to work..
if it doen't try recreating the conn. and install ur tcpip and communications and that should pretty much fix the prb

 

[Soybomb]

If its your server and you can ping it but its not serving dns info, I'd first check and be sure the dns service was running....