How to set up secondary DNS and Stub DNS?

["kevin via WinServerKB.com"]

Hi,

What is the function of secondary DNS and stub DNS and what are the ways to
set up these DNS servers?

For the secondary zone, first, I created secondary zone at first server and
this secondary zone point to the other DNS server, and did the reverse for
the other server. It prompted error after creation of the secondary zone.
The error message was "The transfer of zone data from the master server
failed."

Any idea?

Thanks.

Best regards,
kevin

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[Sweeting@discussions.microsoft.com Jaysen Sweeting]

The secondary standard DNS zone is a read only copy of the DNS database
Hosted by the primary DNS Zone. You can use secondary zones for redundancy
and load balancing. The problem with secondary zones is that if the primary
DNS server becomes unavailable no updates can be made to the zone info
because the secondary is read-only. This is also true with a stub zone.

A stub zone is a new feature in w2k3. Stub zones are like secondary zones in
that they too are read only. A stub zone holds a copy of resource records
hosted on a Primary server. A stub zone can only contain three types of
records, copy of the SOA, copies of the NS records, and copies of A records
for servers authoritative for the zone. A stub zone can be AD integrated a
secondary zone cant.

Here is an article that describes Stub Zones in more detail
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/DNS_Stub_Zones.html

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

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"kevin via WinServerKB.com" <fo...@WinServerKB.com> posted this:

> Hi,
>
> What is the function of secondary DNS and stub DNS and what are the
> ways to set up these DNS servers?
>
> For the secondary zone, first, I created secondary zone at first
> server and this secondary zone point to the other DNS server, and did
> the reverse for the other server. It prompted error after creation
> of the secondary zone. The error message was "The transfer of zone
> data from the master server failed."
>

If you are using AD integrated zones on one DC, you cannot have secondary
zones of the same name on another DC because AD integrated zones are
replicated to at least all domain controllers in the domain.

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[kevin via WinServerKB.com]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify something. So, Stub zone is just
suitable to be deployed for root domains with a lot of child domains, whereas
Stub zone for each child domain is created at first DC of root domain and
data is transferred from all child domain to Stub zones at root domain, right?
All child domains have forwarder to first DC in root domain.

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