Re: Stub zones

"howellrj" <howellrj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi
I would like to know if our company would benifit from stub zones.

Currently we have an empty root with the root zone housed in it, all the
child domains have delegations listed in this root zone. the root zone is
replicated to all DNS servers in the Windows 2003 forest.

Then you don't need stubs on the root (delegations take
care of Root finding children DOWNWARDS.)

And you don't need stubs on the children since you have
fully replicated the Root on the Children DNS.

Stubs are (only) for the case where you WANT to do that
latter part (replicate the zones) but where those zones are
HUGE and you must avoid replicating all of the records.

Stubs are really a special form of Secondary (without the
vast majority of records.)

I would like to know if we had to place stub zones for all the child
domains
to the Root and replicate those to all DNS servers in the forest if we
would
improve the DNS responses.

Nope. You already have something as effective.

Each child domain has only 1 link into the network cloud


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Thanks


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