DNS nslookup failing on DNS server

Question

I am on one of the domain controllers and getting this issue with nslookup shown below, Why does it fail? other controllers don't have that issue. I have verified DNS config but didn't find anything wrong.

 C:\>Nslookup google.com
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  ::1

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out

C:\>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [172.217.3.206] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.217.3.206: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=56
Reply from 172.217.3.206: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56
Reply from 172.217.3.206: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=56
Reply from 172.217.3.206: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 172.217.3.206:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 17ms

if I do same on a workstation, it works fine.

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup google.com
Non-authoritative answer:
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  10.253.178.20

Name:    google.com
Addresses:  2607:f8b0:400a:809::200e
          172.217.3.206





C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : ABC-SRV06
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : ABC.local
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : ABC.local

Ethernet adapter Ethernet 3:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network Connection #2
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 70-E2-84-0A-BE-98
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::cca9:15c0:c477:590b%14(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.253.178.20(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.253.178.1
   DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 242279044
   DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-1F-19-86-72-70-E2-84-0A-BE-97
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : ::1
                                       10.253.175.24
                                       10.253.178.20
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter isatap.{4EECAC43-97C8-416C-B3EE-5C4374713D84}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

NIC settings

IPV6 settings

Solution

After discussion in comments, I see that you have DNS server in your IPv6 configuration. Looks like it not properly configured, so you could easily change DNS settings in IPv6 to Obtain DNS server address automatically from Use the following DNS server addresses. It should solve your issue.

Comments

[nGX]

Can you share output from ipconfig /all? Is 127.0.0.1 configured as primary and then secondary being another DC?

[Alexander Tolkachev]

nslookup trying to resolve domain on IPv6 address. Your DNS-server lister on IPv6 interface?

[nickmcs]

@kps Added output of ipconfig /all

[nickmcs]

@alexander-t you are probably right, but I was told that IPV6 is important and not to turn it off, but my other servers have IPV6 disabled. should I just disable it on the server too?

[olivierg]

you have to get rid of ::1 from your DNS client configuration (on your network card)

[nickmcs]

@olivierg I did remove the localhost in the NIC settings, (see post for pic) is there a different place to do that. maybe reboot is required. Will reboot tonight

[nGX]

Can you add 127.0.0.1 as the first DNS server and then add in additional as necessary? EDIT - Looks like things have changed since I've last setup a DNS server, loopback should be including but not as the first entry...see technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff807362(v=ws.10).aspx

[nickmcs]

@kps I have added back 127.0.0.1 as the DNS (removed it earlier) but it doesn't fix the issue with nslookup, still getting DNS request timeout.

[nGX]

What server does nslookup default to? Also try doing this: (<br> nslookup <enter> set server 127.0.0.1 <enter> google.com <enter>

[Alexander Tolkachev]

Could you show IPv6 NIC configuration?

[nickmcs]

@AlexanderT added image in main message for IPV6 settings