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I'm running Windows 2000 server with Active directory
integrated DNS. I'm also connecting to another domain
that I need to do a zone transfer with but I have a red X
on the DNS for their site. I have tried several
different DNS servers on their side but no luck. I'm
able to ping their DNS server. Can anyone help.
 
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cy said:
I'm running Windows 2000 server with Active directory
integrated DNS. I'm also connecting to another domain
that I need to do a zone transfer with but I have a red X
on the DNS for their site. I have tried several
different DNS servers on their side but no luck. I'm
able to ping their DNS server. Can anyone help.
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Their DNS server will need to allow zone transfers to all IP addresses on
the machine the secondary DNS is running on. This is because MSDNS may use a
differnet IP for outbound connections than the actual IP it is listening on.

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They do allow zone transfers from our DNS server. They
received our zone transfer but we can't get theirs.
 
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cy said:
They do allow zone transfers from our DNS server. They
received our zone transfer but we can't get theirs.
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If they are using Win2k DNS they should check their event logs to to see
what IP your DNS is trying to connect from.
 
From your DNS server test this. Open a command prompt and type "nslookup" and hit enter. Next type "server IP" where IP is the IP address of the server
hosting the zone you want to transfer and press enter. Next type "ls -d zonename" where zonename is the name of the zone you want to transfer and press
enter. If zone transfers are allowed to you, you should get a list of the contents of that zone. If not, you will get a query refused message. If they are indeed
allowing zone transfers to you, verify that they have the correct IP address of your server. If this server is going through a NAT firewall, then the IP address on
the external interface of the firewall is the IP they need to allow transfer to. If it still doesn't work, put the server outside the firewall and test. I've had a couple of
cases where the firewall was causing the zone to fail. Updating the firmware on the firewall solved it.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support

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