Re: DomainDNSZones child domain DNS entries missing

"WayCoolkennel" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks Ace appreciated the help ! yes this makes much more sense...
>
> I tried to change the child domain DNS server to set the scope to
> DomainDNSZones . .but I receive an error.. "There was a server
> failure"
>
> I dont own this child domain btw.. but was granted admin by the admin
> for th child domain..

You must be Enterprise Admin to make such a change. Remember, you are taking
it out of the ForestDnsZones, which requires the Domain Admin from the
forest root to perform any task with this replication scope.

> they've had two different consultants work in
> this domain.. and well.. I have no idea what all may have been done...

You're going to need to gather some info of exactly what was done.
Otherwise, the problem will continue until what was done has been
established, and a game plan to resolve it.

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> The parent is currently set to DomainDNSZones. All other child DNS
> servers are set to DomainDNSZones and they work fine and get updated by
> /rodc no problem..


The parent zone and child zones are set to DomainDnsZones? That's confusing,
since you said in your original post the child zone is in the ForestDnsZones
partition.

Ace

"WayCoolkennel" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the help Ace.. I'm thinking a call to MS is in order...
>
> There is no way for me to know .. or even find out what all has been
> done by the consultants in this child domain.
>
> I was attempting to follow your post .. so I changed the parent (root
> domain) to DomainDNSZones thats why you are confused. I can change the
> child zone on the Parent DNS server to DomainDNSZones but when
> replication occurs it dissapears from the Child DNS server. So it seems
> the Parent DNS server seems to own the zone ?
>
> Right now everything is back to square one.. the Parent DNS zone
> ad.mydomain.com is set to ForestDNSZones AND the child forward zone
> (child.ad.mydomain.com) is also set to ForestDNSZones on the parent DNS
> Server.
>
> I cant seem to change anything with regard to replication scope on the
> child DNS server for the child forward zone.
>

I assume you attempted to change it at the child domain logged on as the
forest root domain administrator. One other way to fix it is to pick one of
the DCs, change the zone on it to a Primary zone (uncheck the box that says
store in AD), and allow replication to occur. This strips out of the app
partitions. Then after replication has occured, check the box again and
specify to replicate in the domain.

But it may be better for you to contact Microsoft to assist. Newsgroups can
help so much until there are road blocks, or the time it takes is far
greater where the problems remain.

Let us know how you make out.

Acr