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Windows 2003 Server - Secondary DNS on secondary DC

When creating a secondary DC in a 2003 server domain, does a secondary DNS get created by default for redundancy purposes or does that have to be done explicitly?

In either case, is there any way to make the DNS server on the secondary DC the primary DNS server with the first DC's being the 'backup' DNS and if there is would there be any reason for doing that?

How redundant is DNS failure in the above environments when the primary DNS goes down?

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motnahp00

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Thanks for the quick response. I'm still not clear - do I have to create a secondary DNS when I create the second DC or does it automatically get created? When both DC1 and DC2 are both up and running I am assuming it does the DNS by default - can I change that - can I have DC2 do the DNS even though DC1 is doing the AD with failback to DC1 DNS? Also when we are talking about redundancy is it DNS redundancy outside of DC redundancy or is DNS redundancy part of DC redundancy?

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