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Question... I am running a single W2K domain with Active
Directory, 9 seperate subnets, two DCs in two seperate
locales and only one DNS site. When I look at the DNS
forwarding zone on the Domain Controller I have only IP
addresses for the local subnet. Should I manually input
the IP addresses for remote subnets and would a seperate
DNS site for each subnet help to improve network
performance?
Thanks
 
Suggestion: If you want all hosts of the net to be listed on the DNS you
have to make sure you´re allowing dynamic updates on the server. Make sure
also that the DHCP server is configured to automatically update DNS. This is
only a suggestion, I don't really see a reason for this to happen for all
the subnets except the local, so, make also sure that DNS registrations are
allowed across the routers. Anyway, you don´t have to register non-local DNS
names manually and you will get no performance gain setting up different
zones for each subnet, but you sure will setting up secondary DNS servers on
each.

Hope this helps,
Robert


Roberto Ruiz
Brainbench MVP for WinNT Workstation
http://www.brainbench.com
 
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Roberto Ruiz said:
Suggestion: If you want all hosts of the net to be listed on the DNS
you have to make sure you´re allowing dynamic updates on the server.
Make sure also that the DHCP server is configured to automatically
update DNS. This is only a suggestion, I don't really see a reason
for this to happen for all the subnets except the local, so, make
also sure that DNS registrations are allowed across the routers.
Anyway, you don´t have to register non-local DNS names manually and
you will get no performance gain setting up different zones for each
subnet, but you sure will setting up secondary DNS servers on each.

Hope this helps,
Robert


Roberto Ruiz
Brainbench MVP for WinNT Workstation
http://www.brainbench.com
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In addition, make sure ALL hosts on ALL subnets are ONLY using this DNS
server. If using any other DNS servers (such as ISP's or the router's or any
other external server), unless they are hosting the same zone (whether
Secondaries or AD Integrated), they must be removed out of their IP
properties and the DHCP scope. AD will have functionality problems
otherwise.

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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