Expired Secondary Zone

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Recently I had one of DC come off line for 6 hours. The
DC runs DNS but specifically it ran a few secondary zones
we had set up for internal purposes. When I brought the
server back online the 2 secondary zones expired. I tried
to force an update but that did not work. I also tried to
recreate the zones from scratch (deleted them and
recreated). But when I did that the zones were still
expired. Any ideas?
Thanks,
KD
 
kd said:
Recently I had one of DC come off line for 6 hours. The
DC runs DNS but specifically it ran a few secondary zones
we had set up for internal purposes. When I brought the
server back online the 2 secondary zones expired. I tried
to force an update but that did not work. I also tried to
recreate the zones from scratch (deleted them and
recreated). But when I did that the zones were still
expired. Any ideas?
Thanks,
KD
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When a zone expires and you re-create it on a W2K DNS server
you probably have to restart the DNS service on the secondary server
for the zone transfer to succeed.
If the primary DNS server hasn't made any changes to any NS records
in the zone then the transfer should be successful.
Make sure that transfers to the secondary name server are allowed
in the zone setup on the primary name server, and that the secondary zone
is setup to load from the correct server.

Also make sure that the serial number for the SOA record on the
primary DNS server is higher than on the secondary one.

As a last resort, if the zone is not AD integrated, you could try to
delete the zone file from the secondary server before you re-create
the zone there.
You'll find the file in "c:\winnt\system32\dns" directory. (if your windows
is installed on C:)
 
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