How to set up secondary DNS

[dpu]

How do I configure a secondary W2K DNS server to back up the primary?

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

thats very vague?

are these DCs are standalone machines?

If DCs, both should have AD integrated, in fact, it should have made teh zone that by default...so your otehr DC should, once you install DNS, already have the zone...so if DCs, answer is to isntall DNS on teh replica DC

if standalones, just right click forward lookup zones, say new zone, select secondary zone, put the master DNS servers IP address, walk the rest of the way through the wizard
(make sure to enable dynamic updates, either secure if DCs, or insecure and secure for members)

then go to teh master server...open forward lookup zones and right click the zone..go to the zone transfers tab ad check allow zone transfers, tehn say to the following servers and add the IP of teh secondary DNS server...this will ensure oly he can replicate teh zone and no hacker gets your zone information as easily to get all IPs on your LAN registered in DNS

-Brandon Wilson
MCSE00/03, MCSA:Messaging, MCSA03, A+
almost got a paragraph there

 

[GlenJohnson]

Brandon is correct that we need more information. Are you going to make the second server a second domain controller? This is the preferred method as it adds redundancy to your network. What is your current setup and what are you planning to do?

Glen A. Johnson
"Trust time, for it tends to provide sweet ways out when facing bitter difficulties"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish writer
Tek-Tips in Chicago IL

 

[dpu]

The second server is a secondary server to the primary. So it is acting as a back-up controller.

 

[GlenJohnson]

There isn't really a bdc with w2k anymore. PDC's and BDC's ended with NT. You have stand alone servers which are not part of the group of servers which are known as domain controllers. There is one server that will have a slight edge over the others, since it will hold the global catalouge, but the servers are all domain controllers. Just bring the new server online, run dcpromo to make it another domain controller, then set it up to sync with the first dc.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/communications/dns/default.asp

Glen A. Johnson
"Trust time, for it tends to provide sweet ways out when facing bitter difficulties"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish writer
Tek-Tips in Chicago IL

 

[dpu]

Ok, I've installed DNS on the second dc - we'll call it AD2. Going through the wizard I create a new zone then choose to make it standard secondary. I select forward lookup zone. I enter a zone name of i.e. mydomain.com. (which is the domian) Then I enter the IP address of the Master DNS server which is the IP address of AD1. Should I be creating this server as it's own zone?