Mirroring records in one zone to another

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Brad Baker

Is there a way to mirror the records in one zone over to another? For
example: we use active directory integrated DNS and all our servers are set
to register themselves in DNS. This is great however they automatically
register themselves in the .com zone. We would like to mirror these entries
over to a .net zone as well so that the two zones are always in sync.

Thanks,
Brad
 
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Brad Baker said:
Is there a way to mirror the records in one zone over to another? For
example: we use active directory integrated DNS and all our servers
are set to register themselves in DNS. This is great however they
automatically register themselves in the .com zone. We would like to
mirror these entries over to a .net zone as well so that the two
zones are always in sync.
Thanks,
Brad
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You could probably create a list of your domains as suffixes in IP
properties, Advanced, DNS tab, and select the checkbox to register into
these zone in DNS, provided the zone are both on all the DNS servers you
have listed in the machine's IP properties.

Othewise you can create some sort of script to detect a change and
automatically populate the other zone.

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Brad Baker said:
Is there a way to mirror the records in one zone over to another?
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Not with any automatic tools. Every zone is a separate entity.
For example: we use active directory integrated DNS and all our servers
are set to register themselves in DNS. This is great however they
automatically register themselves in the .com zone. We would like to
mirror these entries over to a .net zone as well so that the two zones are
always in sync.
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You will have to write a script; read the first zone and find
the differences to update the second zone.

It's not REAL hard; it will be mostly just tedious.

You might use DNScmd to do this. I would probably tend
to write a Perl script to actually create the DNScmd command
lines (since that tools has relatively irritating syntax.)
 
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