NS Record

[Mike Kline]

Suppose I have two domains

Domain A (NT) Domain B (2000)

I have some intranet servers on Domain A that won't get resolved via
public DNS. If I add an NS record for Domain A then will that allow
name resolution to for those intranet servers.

Example: Client in Domain B queries
domainA_IntranetServers.DomainA.com. Will the NS record on Domain B's
DNS server send queries to that name server?

What I'm probably going to do is to create a secondary zone in domain
B that will hold Domain A's records but this NS idea was something
that some co-workers were throwing around.

I know you can use NS records to delegate authority to a sub domain
but can it be used for name resolution to another domain without going
through the normal query process (local cache, preferred DNS server,
….)

Thanks
Mike

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

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Suppose I have two domains

Domain A (NT) Domain B (2000)

I have some intranet servers on Domain A that won't get
resolved via public DNS. If I add an NS record for
Domain A then will that allow name resolution to for
those intranet servers.

Example: Client in Domain B queries
domainA_IntranetServers.DomainA.com. Will the NS record
on Domain B's DNS server send queries to that name server?

What I'm probably going to do is to create a secondary
zone in domain B that will hold Domain A's records but
this NS idea was something that some co-workers were
throwing around.

I know you can use NS records to delegate authority to a
sub domain but can it be used for name resolution to
another domain without going through the normal query
process (local cache, preferred DNS server, ..)

That would be like a stub zone, which Win2k3 does and Win2k does not
support.
So, no it won't work, you will have to use a secondary.