Can you have 2SOA records if you have 2 AD DNS servers, 1 domain? 1

[ftoddt]

I hope this is an easy question and I posted this earlier in an older thread of mine but got no answers yet.

Everything I have read says that there is only one SOA
Record per domain. I have a single domanin with two domain controllers and each one has DNS that is AD Integrated. That was done to provide redundancy in having two domain controllers in case one goes down. DHCP is only on one since I have not split it. Each domain controller computer has it own SOA record pointing to itself. Is that still OK or do I need to get rid on one of them??? The more I look at this, I am thinking that having second DNS server that is also active directory Intergrated might be a bad thing. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Todd

 

[Koonan]

Generally speaking you only have one SOA record per domain, but because you have an Active Directory Integrated Zone you have several. In DNS the DNS that owns the SOA record has write access to the Zone file. In AD Integrated Zones, each DNS server has write access to the Zone File. So, each DNS server has a SOA record. AD replication keeps tracks of "who" made changes and when, so DNS records don't get stepped on.

Mike


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[ftoddt]

MIke,
Thank you so much for your speedy consise answer. Looks like I am Ok afterall. I was kind of hoping that was my main problem and could solve my Exchange AL error problem. I'll keep at it and get it eventually.
Thanks again,
Todd