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Password reset with DNS flush
Hello, I have a domain controller under which I have configured a few systems. The regular password update policy was imposed under which most of the users updated their password. However one...
swap007 based on how you described this, it sounds like his workstation was getting DNS info from a different system (maybe the router) instead of the Windows DC DNS server. As such everything was running with cached creds as the DNS Zone for the domain was likely not resolvable via the routers DNS.
The fact that they could log in with old creds shows that window was attempting to use cached creds instead of validating against a DC. I'd check the event logs on the machine and see if you have errors around not finding logon servers.