DNS Newb Zone Transfer Question

[Phil]

I have recently inherited all network admin
responsibilities; this is my first time managing such
services...

Q: How do the Primary and Secondary DNS servers know to
do zone transfers with each other? Shouldn't each Zone
have a NS record listed for each DNS server that is
authoritative? We only have one listed and I suspect we
get the following event log warning because there is only
one listed.

"The DNS server has encountered numerous run-time
events. These are usually caused by the reception of bad
or unexpected packets, or from problems with or excessive
replication traffic. The data is the number of
suppressed events encountered in the last 15 minute
interval."

thanks!
(I also posted in another group by accident)

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In news:176a301c41842$d5691b80$a101...@phx.gbl,
Phil <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:

This is what you get on a DNS server that has a secondary of an AD
integrated zone. Usually you can ignore these but I wonder why if you are
using Win2k3 are you using a secondary zone.
Win2k3 supports conditional forwarders, on the forwarders tab click new,
type in the domain name and the IP address it is on. Win2k3 can also
replicate to a DNS servers in the forest to so unless I'm missing something,
like maybe this is Win2k, use one of those methods.

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[Phil]

Actually, both DNS servers are Win2K not 2K3, our ad is
2K3... DNS on both servers are not integrated...

We have a second server for redundancy...

sorry for the confusion.

How do the Primary and Secondary DNS servers know to do
zone transfers with each other?

Shouldn't each Zone have a NS record listed for each DNS
server that is authoritative?

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>

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In news:12e3d01c418c5$05524c40$a001...@phx.gbl,
Phil <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> posted their thoughts, then I
offered mine

> Actually, both DNS servers are Win2K not 2K3, our ad is
> 2K3... DNS on both servers are not integrated...
>
> We have a second server for redundancy...
>
> sorry for the confusion.
>
> How do the Primary and Secondary DNS servers know to do
> zone transfers with each other?
>
> Shouldn't each Zone have a NS record listed for each DNS
> server that is authoritative?

See your other posts in win2000.dns for the responses.

It would have been to your benefit if you were to have cross-posted instead
of mutli-posted, this way you get all the answers without searching and we
don't duplicate our efforts! :-)

Multiposting vs Crossposting:
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

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