Is this what Stub Zones look like?

[Ceez]

Hello everyone.

I just have a curiuos question if the following are stub zones:

accounting, baftl & newyork.

I was wondering because they only have NS Records for the DC's of each chid domain. My understanding is that it should have SOA, A and NS records.

Thanks,

ceez

 

[unclerico]

Those look to be delegations to me. Subdomains??

I hate all Uppercase... I don't want my groups to seem angry at me all the time! =)
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[Ceez]

unclerico, yes they are child domains in our forrest.

delagations huh?!? ok time to read up on those. Is it similar to stubs? can I get rid of them without problems?

thanks again,

ceez

 

[unclerico]

NOOOO!!! Don't get rid of them lol. You need them if you are using subdomains since you need to delegate authority for DNS. A lot of people will use delegations in conjunction with Stub Zones since stubs, like you said above, maintain a dynamic list of the NS, SOA, and Glue (A) records of the zone.

I hate all Uppercase... I don't want my groups to seem angry at me all the time! =)
- ColdFlame (vbscript forum)

 

[Rockstar101]

Yes unclerico is right, don't delete them because you will cause problems you don't want with your network.

FYI:
Stub Zones are mainly used by parent zones to keep Names Servers on the child zones updated. Also good if you want to keep network traffic to a minium.

3 reasons your company may have decided to use delegations:

1) When you need to delegate management of a DNS domain to a branch or department within your orginazation.
2) Load maintence on a large DNS database and fault tolerance.
3) When you need hosts and host names to be structured according to branch or departmental affiliation within your organization.