Two Windows DNS servers on the same LAN segment.

[Barry Finkel]

george.e.sullivan at saic.com (George) wrote:

>I am not a DNS guru and have only just begun using Windows 2000 Server
>DNS.  I have also been maintaining the records for our Unix based DNS
>server.  I was wondering if it is ok to have two Windows 2000 Server
>systems, both running, DNS server services.  They will both have the
>exact same Zones, Aliases, Records, etc.  Active Directory is also
>running on these systems.  It sounds reasonable to guess that two
>Windows Servers could be active, but I just wanted to ask before I
>assumed so.  Seems I remember hearing somewhere about primary and
>secondary, but was not sure how that fit into the current Windows 2000
>environment.  Thanks to all.

Search the archives of this list and of its sister list bind9-users.
There have been many MS W2k-related postings, including postings
related to AD-integrated zones and BIND slaves.
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