multiple DNS servers for AD-integrated DNS

[barking]

Hi,

I have set up an Enterprise Root domain xyz.com and a child domain
abc.xyz.com under it. One of the domain controllers in xyz.com runs
AD-integrated DNS for both domains. This all works fine.

I'd now like to configure a DC at each site in the abc.xyz.com domain
to be a DNS server that can also update name records for abc.xyz.com.
In theory I should be able to have multiple DNS servers running on DCs
all able to share and update the abc.xyz.com zone... but how to set
them up?

I install DNS on an abc.xyz.com domain controller, then do an 'add new
zone' giving it the existing name abc.xyz.com which I assumed would
let it find a copy of the abc.xyz.com AD-integrated zone that already
exists. Not so.... a new empty zone gets created and it never sees the
name records that the original DNS server has.

So how is it done?? Help!

Many thanks....

R.

 

[Deji Akomolafe]

On the DNS server in xyz.com, you will create a new delegated zone called
abc.xyz.com. For the configuration, you will put in the name/IP address of
the DNS server(s) in the child domain (abc.xyz.com)

On the DNS server(s) in the child domain, you will create a zone called
abc.xyz.com, make it AD-Integrated, and configure DNS to forward to the DNS
server(s) in xyz.com. In TCP/IP, you make sure that the child server(s) are
using themselves for DNS

You restart the child DNS server for good measure.

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[barking]

Many thanks - I'll give that a try.

R.