Primary/Secondary DNS Issue

From: DavidM (spam_at_spam.net)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 21:46:01 -0600

Hello --

I'm trying to set up a standalone (non-Active Directory) DNS server on my
companies Intranet using W2K for our customers to use to access our internal
production servers... mainly web severs, SQL Servers, etc.

Essentially, I have a primary DNS server using IP of 10.246.16.43.
I have a secondary setup using IP of 10l2.46.16.50

Primary appears to work fine and I can resolve names by removing all DNS
entries for my normal PC setup and entering only my primary DNS server for
my domain.

When I do a test query on the primary DNS, it works fine.

If I go to my secondary DNS, which shows all the correct zones, etc., and do
a test query, it fails. Am I even allowed to do this? I realize I can't
update the secondary, as its a read-only backup (unless I promote), but why
are my DNS failing? Also, if I do promote it to primary and try to do a
test again, it still fails! I'm not sure where else to check.

I've verifed that the "version #" for the zone is in-sync and the same
between primary and secondary. In fact, I've incremented the number by 10
just to ensure they are the same.

I've added both the 16.43 and 16.50 servers as DNS servers and have them
setup on the zone to only allow transfers between servers on the Name Server
tab.

Just for completeness, I added to host entries called ns1.mydomain.net and
ns2.mydomain.net pointing to the primary and secondary servers. These are
the names that I use on the Name Server tab when I browse.

Assuming I could query, I was thinking I could enter both primary/secondary
within my TCP/IP setup on my PC. I should then be able to do an NSLOOKUP
(which will use the primary) and perform an ls -d mydomain.net to show
entries. This does work today. However, if I remove the primary or "pause"
it and do the following for the secondary:

NSLOOKUP
> server 10.246.16.50
>ls -d mydomain.net

It comes back and says query failed.

As it stands now, it looks like only my primary is working and resolving
queries.

If anyone has any ideas why this isn't working, I'd appreciate any help.

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