Re: Replication failure

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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I
then commented about below:
> Under Win2k, DNS replication does not extend past the domain NC
> partition. What this means, zones on the root DC/DNS replicate only
> to DCs in the root domain, not to any child domains.
>
> You can resolve this by deleting the child subdomains on the root
> (xxx) zone, then create delegations named am, as, and eu in the xxx
> zone, make these delegations to their respective child DNS servers.
> Then on all the child DNS servers forward to the xxx DNS server and
> check the box "Do not use recursion" on the child forwarder tab.
> An alternate to forwarding the child DNS servers to the root DNS
> server is to create a secondary of the xxx (root) zone on all child
> DNS servers. This makes all DNS server in all domains capable of
> resolving all child domains in addtion to the root domain.
>
>
> If this were Win2k3 and all DCs were Win2k3, you would set the root
> domain zone to replicate to all DNS servers in the forest. But, under
> Wink2 your options are limited to my recommendations.

Kevin, I'm not entirely convinced that all DNS functions properly work with
single label names. 300684 is designed to allow updates into a single label
zone, but DNS is still DNS, which is hierarchal, where a single label name
doesn't have a hierarchy. It will treat the delegation as a TLD delegation.

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Ace

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