Copy AD Zone to new zone?

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We have a new domain name that I want to be identical to an existing domain
name.

Without Active Directory, you just use the same Zone File. With an AD
Integrated zone how so you do that?

Is there a way to do an initial copy of it if I can't keep them in sync?

Thanks,
Scott<-
 
Scott Townsend said:
We have a new domain name that I want to be identical to an existing
domain name.
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Huh? Please clarify.
Without Active Directory, you just use the same Zone File. With an AD
Integrated zone how so you do that?
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Really confused now.
Is there a way to do an initial copy of it if I can't keep them in
sync?
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This one didn't get any better.

Not sure what you are attempting to do, but if you are saying you have two
domains with the same name you cannot do this one one DNS server or on the
same network, including the public Network. It is one or the other but not
both. If the two domains are Active Directory domains, it makes it even
worse, it can't be done on the same network.
 
Thank you for your reply. Sorry, Let me try to Clarify...

I'm not speaking of our 'NT Domain', just a Domain that we have on our AD
DNS Server.

NT Domain Name = abc.com
company Domain = 123.com
new Domain = new123.com

Currently we have 123.com in our AD DNS, as we use the name behind the
firewall and access Web-servers with that DNS Name.

We just purchased new123.com and would like to be able to have the same DNS
record info for it as 123.com.

On our Standalone Internet DNS Server All I do is point the zonefile of
new123.com to the zone file of 123.com and all is good.

In AD, there is no Zone file, so I cant just point the new domain name to
the Existing. Seems like the last time I did this, we had to remove 123.com
from AD and make it a Primary on the AD DNS Server. Then Copy the Zone file,
then point the new123.com to the zone file, then convert both back to AD
domains.

Just seems like they should have fixed this in 2003...

Thanks,
Scott<-
 
Not saying that this would work as I have not tried it myself but I would
think that what you referred to in your post is the only way I am aware of
that you can create a new zone from an existing zone. I think I would
change the zone from AD integrated to a Primary zone file then copy the zone
file to the new name and then create a new primary and specify that you want
to use the copied file as a source. If that works, change both zones back
from Primary zone files to AD Integrated zones. Again, I have never tried
doing this before myself but it might work.
 
That is what I ended up doing and all is good.

Though there should be a way for an AD integrated zone to be a mirror or
copy of another AD Integrated zone.

We have several domain names with various spellings (we have a & in the
company name) and I want all of our Domain names to have the same records in
them. Now if we make a change to the zone I need to make it on all 4
domains.

Thanks,
Scott<-
 
We have a new domain name that I want to be identical to an
existing domain
name.

Without Active Directory, you just use the same Zone File.
With an AD
Integrated zone how so you do that?

Is there a way to do an initial copy of it if I can't keep
them in sync?

Thanks,
Scott<-
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you story is really confusing...

are you trying to load dns zone info into another dns server and you
want to make that zone ad-i?

still use the zone file and create a primary standard dns zone using
that file. after that convert the zone to ad-i
 
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