Re: Help needed with setting up a secondary DNS server

BreadSlicer wrote:
The part you didn't say is whether the first DC had its zones stored
in Active Directory (ADI).
If the first DC had ADI zones, the second DC would not have been a
Secondary zone, you would have just waited for the zone to replicate
and it would be AD Integrated, too.

Post an ipconfig /all from both DCs (unedited)

DING DING DING!

I noticed that on the lone DNS server that initially there was no
'reverse lookup zone' section in the DNS manager but it appeared
during my attempt to add the secondary one.

I think you're dead-on about the zone not having been there in the
first place which is why the secondary DNS setup process didn't go as
automatically as it should have.

Do you guys think everything should be in place for another attempt at
setting up the secondary DNS server again?

I don't know how we can possibly know the answer.
In addition, there may be a confusion of terms here. Are you setting up a
secondary zone, or a DNS server to be used as an Alternate DNS?

A lot of users try to interchange the terms Primary with Preferred and
Secondary with Alternate.
Preferred and Alternate would be the DNS server order used in TCP/IP
settings. Primary and Secondary are types of zones actually being hosted by
DNS servers, and do not have any reflection on the order that they are used.

IF you have DCs with AD integrated zones, those zones are replicated to at
the minimum all DCs in the domain, and you would therefore not be able to
have any Secondary zones of any of these zones on other DCs in the domain.




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