Please ... please, no apologies are necessary ... Delegation is used in precisely the manner you've outlined, it's only the automated nature of the admin. tools and the process to delegate/distribute the automated content that I'm questioning. I'd agree to a point that such a mechanism may well be a nice facility in that it removes (or lessens) one administrative aspect of distributing DNS but it requires so much more than merely shifting zone content. If clients aren't using the new name server and no other name servers refer to it, what is data doing? If clients _are_ using it and/or other name servers are referring to it, how did that happen? It happened because it was configured to work that way (manually) by an admin. and, as such, the same admin. (fingers crossed) would move the content (or ensure it was regenerated).
I can't speak intelligently as to the "whys" or the "why nots" regarding the existence of such a feature since I've never asked the question of those responsible for making that decision but I'd hazard a guess that such a feature was deemed likely to cause more problems than it would solve. -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Installing DNS in Child Domain But, correct me if I'm wrong here, why on earth wouldn't you be allowed to delegate zones to their respective dns servers? That makes no sense. I'm on sp4 now and running ad intergrated dns and ALL zones are delegated to their respective child dns servers. I've been running like this for 2 + years with no issues. Resoultion works, no rep errors. I can ping any host in the forest by fqdn. What's the delegation feature for then? Is it only for standard dns servers? I find that hard to believe. I'm not in the office but I'll send up my root zone record when I get back for you to see. I'm seriously thinking we are talking about 2 totally different things here(and if so, I apologize). Its rare for me to be right on this list. Esp. as compares to you, Dean. Thanks -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld (www.BlackBerry.net) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
