Easy question, best DNS setup?

[WANguy2k]

I'm helping someone out tomorrow who has 2 domains, one in each location. The 2 locations have internet connections (not point-2-point). They communicate through a VPN, and have a two-way trust set up . They seem to be having DNS problems: although they can VNC between locations each location cannot browse the other by name. Can ping IP addresses on the other side, but can't ping by name.

I think the best setup is to have all PCs in each location point to their local 2000 server for DNS, and have the local server point to the ISP for DNS. However, what's the best way to make sure each server replicates the other server's DNS (local PCs)? Should I make one server the primary DNS server for the whole organization (including the other server) and have that server point to the ISP?

Thanks in advance

 

[aftertaf]

you could make each dns server that is the master for its own domain a secondary server for the other domain...
that way they'll replicate their zone information and be able to resolve for their own domain and the other one too...

Aftertaf

getting quite good at sorting out Windows problems...
An expert when it comes to crashing Linux distributions (mdk, debian - nothing withstands me)

 

[WANguy2k]

Thanks, that's exactly what I ended up doing. Had a little problem getting them to replicate properly. It wouldn't work if I checked the box to notify all domain servers, or if I specified the server by name, only by IP address. I guess if I had the server names in the hosts file it might have worked this way. Anyway, I got it working.

I have another question, will ask in a seperate post.