DNS in Active Directory Mode?

[Owen]

I am going to set up DNS for our company. We are a small
group with a Windows 2000 Domain with one domain server
at the admin site. We have an admin site and a few remote
sites. Some of the remote sites are not part of the
domain. I was wondering if:

Should I set up DNS in Active Directory mode?

If so, will users outside the domain be able to use this
DNS setup?

Also, if the server replicates to secondary zones, do
they have to be part of the Domain?

Regards,

..

 

[David Brandt [MSFT]]

With a single dc you can run a standard primary zone and it will work just
as well. Just be sure that when the zone is created, and you do properties
on it, that it is set to allow dynamic updates so folks can register on it.
Servers running secondary dns zones should be able to pull those records as
long as they have permission to do so. The dns server will need to be set
to allow zone transfers to those machines.

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David Brandt
Microsoft Corporation

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