Leonard: Thanks very much for all your inputs! So, my initial thought was heading kinda right direction, instead of making the 2nd box is Standard Primary DNS, I'll make it another AD-Intergrated DNS, therefore I should have 2 identical DDNS in my domain and that will give me the fault-tolerant.
-----Original Message----- From: Leonard Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:11 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: DNS ideas ? You did say you were considering two DNS servers, right? One DDNS and another Standard Primary DNS? I'm saying, just configure two DDNS servers, they will become multi-master and update to the same Active Directory, which in turn is fault-tolerant because you have three of them. If one goes down, you still have the other one with Active Directory to service DNS requests...while you initiate server recovery procedure on the failed DDNS server. For recovery purpose, you should have a FULL server backup and the system state as well. When you rebuild the failed server, rebuild it as a Windows 2000 server in WORKGROUP, restore from the full backup and restore the system state. Auto-magically, the server GUID is preserved and it's back in production. Cheers, Leonard Lee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pham, Tuan Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:46 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: DNS ideas ? Pardon my stupidity, but I don't see the fault-tolerant. Let's say I have 3 DC, one of them is my only DNS, if something goes wrong with this box, what's coming into play? TP -----Original Message----- From: Leonard Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:58 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: DNS ideas ? If you have more then two Windows 2000 DC, then DDNS is already fault-tolerant. DDNS, by design, is integrated with Active Directory. AD keeps all of DNS entries as objects. You can achieve high-availablity by installing multiple instances of DDNS because DDNS works as a multi-master system. Cheers, Leonard Lee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pham, Tuan Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:29 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: DNS ideas ? I know I'm hitting this list with a lot of DNS question lately, but I want to find the best scenarios for my network. This is one of my scenario: I want two W2K DNS, one is AD-Intergrated DNS server(141.106.10.10) and the other is Standard Primary DNS server(141.106.10.11). AD-Intergrated DNS server is only open up for Secure Update only and Standard Primary is normal Dynamic Update. For internal network, Windows 2K clients and down-level clients will use Standard Primary (141.106.10.11) as their prefer DNS server and AD-Intergrated DNS server(141.106.10.10) as their Alternate DNS server. When any of the client logon to the domain will register itself to the Standard Primary DNS, from here I have to configure the Standard Primary to forward the information to the AD-Intergrated DNS server to update its dynamic DNS zone database (only authenticated client). I thoght this would give me fault tolerance. Does anyone out there using this method? Can you give me some inside tips? Thxs! TP ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
