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No DNS on 2nd Domain Controller

2nd Domain Controller DNS server missing Zones.  1st has Forward Lookup Zones.  2nd doesn't.  Do I need to add it manually?
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Hi, if your zones are not AD integrated, you have to add manually your zone on all your DNS server (secondary zone).
If integrated zones, they are replicated with AD mechanism.
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Tried to integrate and got the following error:
dnscmd dchostname /ZoneResetType ad.company.com /DsPrimary
Command failed:  DNS_ERROR_INVALID_PROPERTY     9553    0x2551
Do you run your command with elevated rights ? Not only connected as admin, you have to run cmd with admin privileges.
Is it just DNS or AD and DNS? did you configure primary DNS as your existing DNS while installing?
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2016 both DCs.  DNS installed by default.  But on 2nd is empty.  No zones.
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Please check this. It explains the reason for missing subfolders and possible fixes
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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/310568/domain-subfolders-missing-from-forward-lookup-zone
Ah!  Found the issue.  For some reason the 2nd DC pointing to the first for its NIC's primary DNS server.  But the Alternate was listed as 127.0.0.1   I left it blank.  Not sure why it provisioned itself that way.  I removed it and flushdns on both.  Not I can see all identical zones on both.  Thanks!
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Glad to help. :)