Stub Zones

[Guest]

Is their a way to create a Stub zone on a Windows 2000 server (SP4). It is a
domain controller. We have a sister company that we want to "point to", and
have lookups look to their DNS server.

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

 

[Herb Martin]

Is their a way to create a Stub zone on a Windows 2000 server (SP4). It
is a
domain controller. We have a sister company that we want to "point to",
and
have lookups look to their DNS server.

Not with the Microsoft DNS Server, perhaps with a
third party DNS server.

Unless your sister company is very large just use a
secondary of their zone. (They will have to allow
the transfer though.)

 

[Guest]

What about having my DNS server on a Windows 2003 Server? Could I use a Stub
zone on it for this purpose?

Is their a way to create a Stub zone on a Windows 2000 server (SP4). It
is a
domain controller. We have a sister company that we want to "point to",
and
have lookups look to their DNS server.

Not with the Microsoft DNS Server, perhaps with a
third party DNS server.

Unless your sister company is very large just use a
secondary of their zone. (They will have to allow
the transfer though.)

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]

 

[Herb Martin]

What about having my DNS server on a Windows 2003 Server? Could I use a
Stub
zone on it for this purpose?

Yes. Win2003 is the first (Microsoft) version to support STUB
zones.

Why do you wish to use a Stub zone?
(It's main purpose is when you have need for only a small
percentage of the records from another DNS server-zone
and for some reason cannot reach them through another method,
i.e., recursion, conditional forwarding.)

 

[Guest]

We need to be able to "read" our sister company's DNS information. Is their
another way to reach them using Win2000 DNS?

Jeff

 

[Herb Martin]

We need to be able to "read" our sister company's DNS information. Is
their
another way to reach them using Win2000 DNS?

Secondary zone. As I said.