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Cannot ping mydomain.local from my other trusted side.

I already cannot remember if it is caused by removal of WINS. Suddenly our two-way trust domains between two trees becomes broken. Well, as I can see from side A to side B seems still fine but from side B to side A is broken. As I can see, I from side B cannot ping side A's DomainA.local while I from side A can ping side B's DomainB.local. Question is, why from side B I cannot ping side A's DomainA.local? Is it a DNS issue ? or WINS issue? or others? Please help.
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Will Szymkowski

8/22/2022 - Mon
Will Szymkowski

Are you able to ping via IP to machines in the other domain You probably do not have the proper DNS Forwarders in place on your domain controllers pointing to the other domain. You need DNS servers from the other domain to be able to provide name resolution so what you need to do it add a Conditional forwarder in DNS for domain A to Domain B. In Domain B you will need Conditional forwarders to domain A.

When you query a machine from a forest that is not in your forest root domain it needs to query the other DNS servers in the other forest to get a reply back.

Another thing you can do is create a secondary zone for Domain A in Domain. You can then do the same for Domain B in Domain A. If you go this route you will need to add "Zone Transfers" for the other forest on each of the Zones you want to present as read only.

If you have all of this in place and it still doesn't work might be a firewall related issue.

Will.
Castlewood

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In side A's DNS servers I am able to add side B's DNS servers as the Secondary Zone. However I am NOT able to do that in side B's DNS severs since I even cannot see any side A's DNS servers listed in the Browse list. I guess one of the two ways of Trust is broken. The problem is, shall I fix the DNS before rebuilding the Trust or the opposite? How?
In side B I can ping side A's servers/hosts without a problem but just not the side A's domain name which is called domainA.local, which signals the Trust becomes broken.
As far as why I cannot ping domainA.local from side B? (As mentioned I can ping domainB.local from side A.) That I really need help as it won't get resolved at all.  Do I need to manually add any records in DNS or WINS in order to make this ping working? Please help.
Will Szymkowski

On the DNS servers in DomainA did you add the DNS servers of DomainB to the Zone Transfers Tab? You cannot add Secondary Zones if you do not have Zone Transfers enable for the DNS server in the other domain.

Also why are you only using a 1 way trust and not 2 way? Are you trying to access resources in both domains?

Will.
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Transfer in the tab has been enabled.
The Trust is a two-way. But one of them is broken. That is what I'm trying to figure out -- how to repair it?
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