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Renaming/Deleting DNS Zone

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by huntec

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Hi All,
Need help quickly!! I'll be brief, Have NT4 traditional domain:NT_ABC with (PDC1 & BDC1). Also have W2k Active Directory Domain: w2k_ABC with (DC1 & DC2). Both domains have bi-directional trust relationship.

BDC1 runs native NT4 DNS (zone name: 123.com) and DC1 & DC2 runs DNS integrated with Active directories (Zone name: W2k.com). Both DNS (123.com & w2k.com) servers have secondary zones of each other. (I always get errors there, but let deal with one problem at a time).

What mymanager wants to do (because he thinks working with two zones are cause resolving issues. He wants to get rid of W2k.com and only use 123.com zone. But he wants it on DC1 & DC2 instead of PDC1 & PDC2. If I can't get rid of W2k.com, he wants me to blow the boxes (DC1 & DC2) away and recreate from scratch. I'm offering a lot of points for the best answer towards solving our situation and NOT blowing boxes away. Oh two more things. BOTH DNSes are very populated with records (dynamically, manually and aliases), so your suggestions should include preserving as much as you can. AND both domains are only internal, not external.

Thanks
Cliff

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by scottsman

unfortunatly (for you) w2k AD uses DNS for all name resolution and I believe you have to have at least one dns server in AD. I would look at moving the 123.com zone onto the AD servers and make the old NT boxes (they have to be sp4 or better to workwith 2000 dns) caching-only servers. This should remove any SOA problems and make resolution faster. There is alot of info on DNS at technet.com

good luck. I hope this points you in the right direction.

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