DNS across different domains

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In the company i work at we have 2 different domains. An
example would be time.com and watch.com. In each of these
domains we have a DNS Server. Active Directory
Intergrated running. I want to have a time.com zone on
the watch.com zone and the watch.com zone on the time.com
zone How is this possible? I created the two zones in
each domain but it did not replicate when the DNS
database was changed. I made one of them a secondary zone
on the other DNS server and everything replicated fine.
Is this the way that it is supposed to be set up? I have
not found to much on the Microsoft website about setting
up DNS to replicate across two different domains.
 
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Jason said:
In the company i work at we have 2 different domains. An
example would be time.com and watch.com. In each of these
domains we have a DNS Server. Active Directory
Intergrated running. I want to have a time.com zone on
the watch.com zone and the watch.com zone on the time.com
zone How is this possible? I created the two zones in
each domain but it did not replicate when the DNS
database was changed. I made one of them a secondary zone
on the other DNS server and everything replicated fine.
Is this the way that it is supposed to be set up? I have
not found to much on the Microsoft website about setting
up DNS to replicate across two different domains.
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Since this is two domains the zones will not replicate using Win2k. You will
have to use Secondary zones.
 
Since this is two domains the zones will not replicate
using Win2k. You will
have to use Secondary zones.
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Kevin, I think what he asked is how to setup those 2
domains to be resolvable on each server localy, basicay:
primary and secondary zones.

Jason, I assume based on your statement "AD intergrated
running" that those two domains are in the same forest.
If they are, then here is what you need to do:
on time.com DNS, in the properties on "Secrity" tabls,
you need to add watch.com dns server and set it up
with "Read" permission. Do the same on watch.com DNS
server. This will allow those two server reach each
other. Since you run AD, each of those DNS servers has
primary AD integrated zone created. In order to make them
visible on both of the servers you need to:
on time.com DNS server create "Secondary" zone, and point
it to IP of watch.com DNS server. Do the same on
watch.com DNS. This should do it, they should get all the
updates from each other.
If your domains are not members of the same forest, then
you neeed to setup trust between them first, before you
can add those servers to reach each other.
Hope this help.
CR
 
When i create a secondary zone on the server in the other
domain when i restart the DNS server it goes away is
there a reason for that? Also to one of the replies I am
going across different domains so i guess i have to use
the secondary zone instead of Active Directory
Intergrated. I think that Active Directory Intergrated is
only used for same domain purposes. Thanks you for all
the replies.
 
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