> Just not comfortable with how DNS is still setup, so have a > few questions: > > 1. Presently, the DHCP scopes point clients to the parent.com DNS > servers. Since all users and computers are in the > child.parent.com domain, > wouldn't the best practice be to point all DHCP clients to the > child.parent.com domain DNS servers? Does it make a > difference that these > clients use the DNS servers in the root (parent) domain?
I'd probably point the clients to the child domain DNS, yes, but it all depends on how you want to run DNS as an overall scheme. Seeing as this is an empty root (which is exactly what I run as well), I'd set the child domain up to handle all resolving tasks. I'd probably also include secondaries of the parent(root) domain's zone as well. > 2. Presently, the child.parent.com forward lookup zone > is housed in the > root of the DNS - i.e. - there is a DNS Forward Lookup Zone > setup just for > this child domain. There is also a separate lookup zone for > the parent.com > domain. Shouldn't the child domain zone be listed under the > parent.com > domain zone? Does it make a difference? Yes, it makes a difference, but no one isn't necessarily better than the other. Listed individually (as they are) simply means they aren't directly aware of each other - they are two discrete zones. You probably just need to add a delegation of the child zone from the parent zone and you'll fix most of your issues. > 3. There are a number of websites hosted in the DMZ, so > there are a > number of Forward Lookup Zones. If I move the DHCP scope to > point to the > child DNS servers, should I then move these website zones to > the child DNS > servers to ensure the best possible performance? Probably not necessary. DNS is a pretty efficient process, once everything is configured properly. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
