Re: Who is general DNS and why is he reading my hard drive?

yaro137 wrote:
> On 1 Apr, 23:50, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-
> newsgro...@NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
>> Can someone point me to some article that would explain [...]
>>
>> Yes. Demonstration: Starthere, proceed tohereandhereandhere. Come back after you have read them.
>
> Jonathan thanks for the links. Lots of technical text and not to many
> pictures especially showing a real life configuration examples of the
> actual DNS snap-in but I'll try to dig my way through it.
>
> Chris and Ace as I said it's all hypothetical and not particular
> problems I have but a general problem with understanding DNS
> configuration and design. Thanks for all your help.
> BTW Chris going back to setting up a primary zone in a branch office,
> what if it would be a child domain like south.domain.com connected to
> the main office via a very slow link.
> Wouldn't it make sense to install south.domain.com as a primary zone
> on the local domain controller? Just wandering...
> yaro

Yes, it would.

If you're playing with AD there's a lot to be said for avoiding
multi-domain configurations. They bring very little to the table, that
said, how slow is slow?

Remember that if you use AD Integrated Zones it multi-master. Every DC
holding a zone has a primary copy, changes are replicated through Active
Directory rather than as part of the DNS system.

Chris

"Chris Dent" <> wrote in message news:ueZ0%...
> yaro137 wrote:
>> On 1 Apr, 23:50, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-
>> newsgro...@NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
>>> Can someone point me to some article that would explain [...]
>>>
>>> Yes. Demonstration: Starthere, proceed tohereandhereandhere. Come back after you have read them.
>>
>> Jonathan thanks for the links. Lots of technical text and not to many
>> pictures especially showing a real life configuration examples of the
>> actual DNS snap-in but I'll try to dig my way through it.
>>
>> Chris and Ace as I said it's all hypothetical and not particular
>> problems I have but a general problem with understanding DNS
>> configuration and design. Thanks for all your help.
>> BTW Chris going back to setting up a primary zone in a branch office,
>> what if it would be a child domain like south.domain.com connected to
>> the main office via a very slow link.
>> Wouldn't it make sense to install south.domain.com as a primary zone
>> on the local domain controller? Just wandering...
>> yaro
>
> Yes, it would.
>
> If you're playing with AD there's a lot to be said for avoiding
> multi-domain configurations. They bring very little to the table, that
> said, how slow is slow?
>
> Remember that if you use AD Integrated Zones it multi-master. Every DC
> holding a zone has a primary copy, changes are replicated through Active
> Directory rather than as part of the DNS system.
>
> Chris


I think in a such a scenario, I would opt for a parent-child delegation.

Also, I assume when Yaro stated a "Primary" zone, it was meant to be an AD Integrated zone (since there's a checkbox stating it's a Primary zone). I think that's somewhat confusing, due to the differences with an AD integrated zone (zone data is stored in AD), and a true Primary zone (data stored in a text file). With a true Primary, you have additional work to do creating and checking up on Secondary zones on the other DCs.

For Yaro - with a parent-child delegation, the south.domain.com zone will be administered at the South domain location. You would create an AD integrated zone called south.domain.com at the child domain and set the replication scope to only the south.domain.com domain (DomainDnsZones - middle button). Then at the parent domain DNS, delegate the 'south' subfolder to the nameservers in the south.domain.com domain. Then set a forwarder on each of the South domain's DNS servers to the parent DNS servers.

I hope that makes sense.

--
Ace

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