Windows 2000 DNS Zone Delegation

[Dylan Kulesza]

Currently I have an AD domain for ecm.com. We recently linked our
austin office into AD. I now want to have two subdomains,
satx.ecm.com and autx.ecm.com. How can I delegate the DC in Austin to
manage autx.ecm.com? Also, do I need the AD specific info (_msdcs,
_sites, _tcp, _udp) registered in the autx.ecm.com namespace, or is
that only if I have another Active Directory Child Domain?

 

[Ulf B. Simon-Weidner]

Currently I have an AD domain for ecm.com. We recently linked our
austin office into AD. I now want to have two subdomains,
satx.ecm.com and autx.ecm.com. How can I delegate the DC in Austin to
manage autx.ecm.com? Also, do I need the AD specific info (_msdcs,
_sites, _tcp, _udp) registered in the autx.ecm.com namespace, or is
that only if I have another Active Directory Child Domain?

Hi Dylan,

to delegate a zone to a different server simply create the zone on the server
which is supposed to hold the subdomain, then go to the parent zone and select
new -> delegation from the action menu.

Of the AD-specific info it's recommended to hold a copy of _msdcs.%
forestrootdomain% on every DNS-Server since the GCs are queried this way. To
accomblish that you should have a separate zone on your forest root dns
_msdcs.%forestrootdomain%, and have a delegation in the %forestrootdomain%-zone
to the same server. This enables you to configure zonetransfers to the servers
of the other domains.

HTH

Gruesse - Sincerely,

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner