DNS Zone delegation

[precioustony]

Can someone please help me on zone delegation?

I have a Forest Root domain called: Rootdomain.net
and now I want to a New Domain Tree called mydomain.co.uk

Now on the DNS Server for rootdomain.net I want to create a zone delegation for the mydomain.co.uk domain tree so that
the server hosting the dns zone for mydomain.co.uk domain tree would be recognised as the authoritative server for that zone

 

[JimWells]

If the zone you want delegated is actually in the co.uk domain, then co.uk needs to list your authoritative nameservers.

If it's a private/non-public domain, then just create the zone in your first DNS server, but change the NS records to reflect the DNS server that you're delegating to...

 

[precioustony]

Yea, it works. thanks a lot.

 

[precioustony]

Hi JimWells,

One more clarification, pls. the domain is non-public.
the root domain is rootdomain.net and I have two domain trees under it: mydomain.co.uk and yourdomain.co.uk
The servers hosting the dns for mydomain.co.uk and yourdomain.co.uk is running AD-Integrated zones.

Based on your previous reply, on the dns server for the rootdomain.net I created PRIMARY zones for the two new domain trees and changed the NS records as you suggested.
Am I right in making this zone Primary or should it be secondary?

Finally how do I configure the DNS on mydomain.co.uk and yourdomain.co.uk so that they can resolve names in each others domain.

Thanks a lot

 

[JimWells]

For the first question - you actually should be able to make this AD-integrated (you can convert it by choosing that option) - I spoke of primary/secondary because that's the example I had in front of me at the time. If they were primary/secondary, that wouldn't have an effect on the delegation - primary and secondary refer to where a zone pulls its updates from (the primary) and implies that the rest are read-only (secondary).

For the second question - the easiest way is to put in a conditional forward on the properties of the DNS server (forwarders tab, I think). just add *.mydomain.co.uk and the DNS IP for that server, and vice-versa for the other DNS server...

Let me know if you have any problems implementing...the easiest way to test will be with nslookup on each server...