Windows 2000 DNS and Exchange Server 2003 problems

From: alberto.palma@xxxxxxxxx
Date: 30 Jan 2007 12:30:42 -0800

Dears friends,

We have a network with 3 servers with AD installed on all of them. Two
of them are running windows 2000 server and the third one is running
windows 2003 with exchange server 2003.

We have installed a DNS on the servers running windows 2000 server, so
we have a secondary dns server in our network in case there is a crash
on the primary dns server.

The primary dns server acts as a forwarder to our isp's dns server.

The problem is that if we stop running the main server with dns,
exchnage server stops working and we are not able to log into
mailboxes and send mails.

Do you know how to avoid this dependency of exchange on the dns
servers ?

Is there any way to link the secondary dns server to the exchange
server in case the primary dns server fails ?

Thanks in advance!

Alberto

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