Conditional forwarder in win2000 DNS

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Brion Keagle

Can I set up a conditional forwarder or stub zone in Windows 2000 DNS?
Basically, I just want lookups for one particular zone to go to a particular
server, and everything else to resolve as it currently does. I know I can
do this in 2003, but I don't see that it's possible in 2000?

Thanks!
 
Brion Keagle said:
Can I set up a conditional forwarder or stub zone in Windows 2000 DNS?
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No, that's a new feature as of Win2003 DNS Server.
Basically, I just want lookups for one particular zone to go to a particular
server, and everything else to resolve as it currently does. I know I can
do this in 2003, but I don't see that it's possible in 2000?
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Not directly. If you are able to be a secondary for that other
zone this is most reliable.

If not, you may -- if you are willing -- setup that other specific
MACHINE name "zones" for each address you must override
and type them in.

Example: You want to find www.otherdomain.com and
ftp.otherdomain.com through the local DNS server that
is NOT authoritive for the whole "otherdomain.com".

Create a 'zone' (really a zone) for www.otherdomain.com
and add an A record with a blank host name (same as parent).

Then do the same thing for another zone ftp.otherdomain.com

Of course if either of those addresses changes you must maintain
all this manually.
 
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