Can I delete the '_msdcs.domain' zone?

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From: "TheMechanic" <TheMechanic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:30:02 -0700

Good Morning,
I have a 4010 DNS error in the event viewer(I have another post about this).
It can not load the RR records in the previous mentioned zone(I believe they
are the CNAME records of all of the servers and the domain). After digging
around I have found some references that I may have a corrupted DNS zone.
Can I delete that very important zone and then immediately have the 6 servers
reregister the records in that zone (IPCONFIG flushDNS and registerDNS; And
then net stop/start netlogon)? It is kind of scarey! Is there a way to back
up that zone so I can recreate it if there is a problem? Is there a safe way
of doing this? Thanks for any help.
--
Steve
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