Can’t ping parent domain name?

We have a Windows 2000 AD domain cityname-tn.org located at city hall.
We have a Windows 2000 AD Child domain electric.cityname-tn.org
located at the electric department. Everything seems to work fine
except the child domain can?t find domain controllers for the parent
domain.

Pinging the cityname-tn.org comes back with unknown host.
NSlookup cityname-tn.org returns nothing with no error.

I can ping any computer in this domain just not the domain itself.

I have tried setting up forwarders from the child domain to the
parent. I can not get it to work.

What should I be looking for or what tools should I be using to fix
this.

Thanks

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