Re: '.' question windows 2003 server

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webby wrote:
We have two dns servers in the parent domain, on one dns server with
a '.' on it, this was done for security reasons. There is a child
domain that administers their own dns servers. All zones are AD
integrated. Everything was working fine. An admin in the parent
domain decided to create a new '.' zone on the second dns server in
the parent domain. After replication occurred, this "new" '.' zone
was replicated to the child domain and I think the original '.' zone
was overwritten. Does this sound plausible? Question is why wasn't
the original '.' zone replicated to the second dns server in the
parent domain, but when a new '.' was created on the second dns
server it was replicated to the child domain? We are trying to
determine what happened and if our conclusions are correct. Any help
would be great. Thanks.

The original "." zone was most likely a standard primary zone and would NOT
have been replicated.
Apparently the admin create the new zone Stored in Active Directory, set to
replicate to all DNS servers in the AD forest, which would have replicated
even to child DCs.


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