Changing Forward Lookup Zone Type Aaron 5/2/2007 1:27:02 PM Okay, first some background: there are three domains at work here... mine (A), our parent company (B) and our sister company (C). Until recently an old Network Admin was responsible for DNS and whatnot. He's gone, we're having DNS issues. There seems to be something amiss with DNS, so I check the log on Srv1 (DC, DNS on Domain A) and it's blank. Only event is the DNS service starting. Okay, so I right-click the forward lookup zone to Domain B and there isn't a Reload or a Transfer option. Weird, so I check the zone type... it's a AD-Integrated zone (ditto with Domain C). Here's the question. Is there any good reason why Domain A would have an AD-Integrated DNS zone for Domain B and C, or would we be better off as Secondary zones? Also, if the latter is the case, is there any potential problems with simply changing the zone type of the forward lookup zones to Secondary for the two OTHER domains? I know that I have the ability to, but we all know that doesn't necessarily make it a good idea.

Re: Changing Forward Lookup Zone Type "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 5/2/2007 5:33:07 PM Read inline please. In news:F15E035D-9007-489C-B867-6FBA54717812[ at ]microsoft.com, Aaron <Aaron[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> typed: [Quoted Text] > Okay, first some background: there are three domains at work here... > mine (A), our parent company (B) and our sister company (C). Until > recently an old Network Admin was responsible for DNS and whatnot. > He's gone, we're having DNS issues. > > There seems to be something amiss with DNS, so I check the log on > Srv1 (DC, DNS on Domain A) and it's blank. Only event is the DNS > service starting. Okay, so I right-click the forward lookup zone to > Domain B and there isn't a Reload or a Transfer option. Weird, so I > check the zone type... it's a AD-Integrated zone (ditto with Domain > C). > > Here's the question. Is there any good reason why Domain A would > have an AD-Integrated DNS zone for Domain B and C, or would we be > better off as Secondary zones? Also, if the latter is the case, is > there any potential problems with simply changing the zone type of > the forward lookup zones to Secondary for the two OTHER domains? I > know that I have the ability to, but we all know that doesn't > necessarily make it a good idea. Are these Windows Server 2003 DCs? (Which support Forest wide replication) Are they a part of the same Active Directory Forest? On the zone properties sheet, what is replication set to? If it is All DNS servers in the Active Directory Forest <ADForest> and all DCs are in the same Forest, it sounds like it is correct. -- Best regards, Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] Hope This Helps Send IM: http://www.icq.com/people/webmsg.php?to=296095728 =================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue, to respond directly to me remove the nospam. from my email address. =================================== http://www.lonestaramerica.com/ http://support.wftx.us/ http://message.wftx.us/ =================================== Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: It will strip signature out and more http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ =================================== Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders with OEBackup: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx ===================================