How to connect a Win 2000 child domain to its parent through Cisco

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I have several questions based on the subject line.

-I have a Windows 2000 child domain controller at a remote site. -
172.16.x.x/255.255.x.x

-I have a Windows 2000 parent domain controller at the main site. -
10.0.x.x/255.x.x.x

-The remote site is connected to the main site through a Cisco VPN
(IPSEC)tunnel. Cisco 3015 at main site Linksys VPN router at the remote site.

-DNS is configured on both the parent and the child. Other child DC's that
do not use VPN connect to the PDC and communicate fine.


Here is the problem:
I can ping the child from the parent; DNS and Netbios translates for server
name and domain
I can ping the parent from the child; DNS and Netbios translates for server
name and domain

I cannot get the child to communicate as a DC to the parent. DCDIAG fails
on the connectivity test because it claims there is no DC for the
domain(child).

Any idea what is happening here? I have exhausted all of my resources and
even tried adding WINS at the main site with static mappings for the child
and vise-versa; still nothing.

Any help or direction is greatly appreciated.

Andy
 
What does the DC in the child site use for DNS? Itself? The local DNS
server will not have the resource records for the parent site.

With sites it is a good idea to make the local DNS server a secondary
for the DNS servers in other sites. The local DNS server can then resolve
names for all DNS zones in the network locally.
 
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