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Windows Server 2008 DNS Secondary Zones

Our company has multiple domains with trusted forests between them. Every sites DC currently is running Server 2003. We opened a new site with a DC running Server 2008 at 2003 functional level.

I was able to setup the trusts successfully, but when I try to add the secondary zones for the other networks in DNS it just keeps failing.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

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Minoru7

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Minoru7

I re-read your post, and brwwiggins is correct. I was thinking in terms of AD-sites, but you're talking company sites (and separate domains). With that in mind, conditional forwarding makes more sense. If someone requests a server from one of the other DNS zones, your 2008 server will forward those requests to DNS servers that host that zone. As brwwiggins said, that saves on troubleshooting zone xfers, and also reduces the complexity in general.

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Yes each site has there own AD.. separate from each other..

what is the best way to set this up?

Thanks