I have a W2K3 Server that is the Domain Controller and also the DNS server. I wanted to make another DNS zone on my network called "something.local" and then make 'A' records to point requests like 'admin.something.local' and 'www.something.local' to machines on my network.

I keep getting DNS timeouts but then after 2 tries it succeeds. Why would this happen? How can I troubleshoot?

From my desktop I run:

nslookup admin.something.local

and get:

Server:  server.domain.com.au.local
Address:  192.168.0.10

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.

Name:    admin.something.local
Address:  192.168.0.191

If I go back the other way:

nslookup 192.168.0.191

I get:

Server:  server.domain.com.au.local
Address:  192.168.0.10

Name: admin.something.local
Address: 192.168.0.191

• My DNS server address is 192.168.0.10.
• The new DNS zone is not hooked up to active directory.
• I do not have much experience with DNS.
• Yesterday it was working fine.
• I have tried doing an 'ipconfig /flushdns' on both my desktop and the DNS server