zone transfers from child domain

[comcast]

Group,

I have set up a Parent domain: securecnets.com with AD and DNS
implemented. All lookups on parent domain work just fine. I have added the
domain search: securecnets.com to the clients. I also added a child domain
to an existing domain: accounting.securecnets.com with AD and DNS
implemented to the parent domain. I then added the domain search to the
clients: accounting.securecnets.com All clients now have securecnets.com
and accounting.securecnets.com
All clients are pointing to their respective DNS server.
Ex. client A on securecnets.com is pointing to DNS server on
securecnets.com (10.10.1.2) and client B on accounting.securecnets.com is
pointing to DNS server on accounting.securecnets.com (10.10.1.3)
I then added a secondary zone on the parent domain DNS server as
accounting.securecnets.com and all records do transfer just fine; however,
when I update a record or delete a record on the child domain, the records
do not get updated on the parent DNS server. I have zone transfers set to
all servers and dynamic set to yes. I can live with manually changing the
records on the parent, but I do not believe that I have to do this at all.
It seems that this update should update automatically.
Is the setup I have sufficient, is there a better method than a
secondary zone. I have tried a delegation to the child domain from the
parent domain, but NO records get transferred at all.

Thanks for your time
Steve

 

[Michael Holzemer]

When you test to see if the records change are you using a client? If so be
sure to flush the DNS cache before testing. If you are on the server looking
in the DNS snap-in make sure your SOA serial numbers match. If not, do a
transfer from master on the secondary servers then refresh the zone (often).
If you want the transfer to go faster set the primary server to notify all
secondary servers when a change occurs. You will find this on the transfer
tab.

 

[comcast]

That solved the problem.
On my child domain DNS server, under zone transfers, clicked on notify
and added the dns server of the parent and all is updating now.
As for the secondary zone, is this setup ok, should I be using a
delegation instead. Should I set the secondary to AD integrated? Any help
for max performance would greatly be appreciated.

Steve