Connecting two seperate forests?

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Can I for requests for another zone from my dns server to that dns server
for a single zone. The example would be:

myzone.dns.com needs to know about therezone.dns.com. Can I configure my dns
to look on another specific dns server for a particular zone? I managed to
ask the questions 3 times, just to make sure this was clear...

Thx
 
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LWG said:
Can I for requests for another zone from my dns server to
that dns server for a single zone. The example would be:

myzone.dns.com needs to know about therezone.dns.com. Can
I configure my dns to look on another specific dns server
for a particular zone? I managed to ask the questions 3
times, just to make sure this was clear...
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Win2k or Win2k3?
Win2k3 is easier you just have to add the other domain to the conditional
forwarders list on the forwarders tab or add a stub zone.
Win2k DNS requires you to pull a secondary zone to your DNS server.
 
LWG said:
Can I for requests for another zone from my dns server to that dns server
for a single zone. The example would be:
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Assume you mean "forward requests"....
myzone.dns.com needs to know about therezone.dns.com. Can I configure my dns
to look on another specific dns server for a particular zone? I managed to
ask the questions 3 times, just to make sure this was clear...
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Two main ways in Win2000:

1) create a zone for the PARENT, and properly delegate
the child zones, arrange for the DNS servers to find OR
hold the parent -- this is standard DNS methodology

2) Have each DNS server hold "cross secondaries" for the
other needed sibling, or even unrelated zones

#2 works fine for small numbers or (fairly) small zones but
is tedious with many zones and can cause uneeded replication
for large zones.

Win2003 introduces two new DNS Server features which
address the issue: Stub Zones and Conditional Forwarding
 
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Herb Martin said:
Assume you mean "forward requests"....


Two main ways in Win2000:

1) create a zone for the PARENT, and properly delegate
the child zones, arrange for the DNS servers to
find OR hold the parent -- this is standard DNS
methodology

2) Have each DNS server hold "cross secondaries" for
the other needed sibling, or even unrelated zones

#2 works fine for small numbers or (fairly) small zones
but
is tedious with many zones and can cause uneeded
replication for large zones.
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This is fine for parent-child related domains, not for separate forests as
the OP requested.
Separate forests require secondary zones on Win2k.
 
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. said:
This is fine for parent-child related domains, not for separate forests as
the OP requested.
Separate forests require secondary zones on Win2k.
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Separate forests or not, the example he gave was for
sibling DNS zone in the same dns.com tree:

myzone.dns.com
therezone.dns.com

In this example the common parent DNS.com exists.

Technically it would also work for .com as the common
parent but one would give up the (general) forwarding ability
and therefore most people would find it unsuitable.
 
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