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by mdelacruz

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I have two windows NT 4.0 server running windows dns services. The first DNS server is the primary zone holder of the domain us.ipin.com and the second DNS server is the primary zone holder of the domain it.us.ipin.com. No secondary zone are created.

The question.
When a client query the first DNS server with the it.us.ipin.com domain. How can the first dns server forward the query to the second DNS server?

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by rcc

This is not ZONE configurable as far as I know. The DNS server looks in its zone files, if it doesn't find the request there it will forward it to the next server, regardless of the zone query ( if not in its own master zoen)
There is an option that states USE FORWARDERS. This can be found on DNS manager, Your Server, Properties, Forwarders.
Regards,
Radu

by mdelacruz

On Windows NT 4.0 DNS. It Matters
what zone you are tyring to query. If you trying to query subdomain to a another dns server, even if you have global forwarders on the DNS properties, the query will not be forwarded.

Let me rephrase my question.
How can I specify in windows DNS files to forward a specific FQDN query to a specific dns server, NOT the " Your Server, Properties, Forwarders ".

by tony.colgrove

The only real answer, is to create a secondary zone on the first server with the it. subdomain. Now that first server has the copy of the zone information, and not have to forward to resolve queries.

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