[ActiveDir] disaster recovery

[Kern, Tom]

I just restored AD. I had a test laptop, pulled it off the network, ran ntdsutil, 
seized all 3 roles,ran metadata cleanup and removed all my old dc's. deleted them with 
adsiedit and all dns records as well.
then at the DR site, i set up new servers with the same names as the old one's, ran 
dcpromo. however, the new servers get dnslookup/rpc errors when i try to force a 
replication.
also, they fail a dcdiag because the guid dns name is not present and the server 
"fails a directory request"
Also the srv records for kerberos and kpasswd do not appear in dns for my domain.
The test laptop had an AD intergrated dns zone pulled directly from my real network. 
However, it just has the zone for my domain, not the forest root.
do i need this record as well to promote DC's. I'm not connected to the forest anyway, 
but should i have the forest root records too.
what am i doing wrong?
thanks
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