Win 2003 AD DNS Child and Parent

[vdinenna]

Hi Everyone,

We have a parent-child domain setup over a fairly quick VPN connection. There aren't too many hosts on either domain and change are not made frequeny on either side.

We can PING hosts on the parent domain from the child domain with PING hostname.

From the parent domain, we cannot PING hostname on the child domain. We can PING hostname.childdomain from the parent to child domain.

We setup delegation from the parent to child domain. All it did was create a grey folder under the parent domain with only the child domain DNS server SOA record.

We also setup secondary DNS servers on each primary DNS server. The zones updated with the hosts from each domain.


Is there a way to setup DNS so the client on the parent domain can resolve the host on the child domain without using hostname.childdomain?

Thanks,

Vince

 

[Cstorms]

Can you use something along the lines of the "append these dns suffixes (in order)", I have of course only studied on using that feature and not implemented it in real life, but this sounds like something that you would use this feature for since its on the client end.

Good luck, please keep me posted if you find what you need.

Cory

 

[lhuegele]

If you can ping by IP and not name then it's something in your DNS setup. Setting the DNS suffix setting on every computer (via your DHCP server) can alleviate most common problems.

Good luck,

 

[bracadar]

Make sure DNS server is installed on the domain controller, have child use the DC as the primary DNS server, make sure your forwarder has the DNS IPs from your ISP, and then try having the VPN clients use the DC as the DNS server, and you should be able to ping by internal host names