Pretty much. I think Stuart got me on the right track. I made the changes he suggested and it's behaving how I want it to,
- Sean On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Christopher Bodnar < [email protected]> wrote: > Are you referring to conditional forwarding? > > > > For example, all requests for anything in the widgets.com namespace will > go to these DNS servers 10.x.x.1 10.x.x.2 > > > > ? > > > > Chris Bodnar, MCSE > Sr. Systems Engineer > Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services > Guardian Life Insurance Company of America > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 610-807-6459 > Fax: 610-807-6003 > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:34 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Windows 2003 DNS > > > > Good morning, > > > I'm assisting my Network Services team with the implementation of Cisco's > Global Site Selector. Part of the implementation plan includes the > re-configuration of some of our domains ( to be handled by the site > selector) on our Windows 2003 DNS servers (external DNS, not AD integrated) > so that the global site selector will respond with name resolution. > > > > The GSS has been configured with all of the appropriate A records to > respond to queries. I've tested what I thought was a workable solution by > simply changing the NS records for one of the domains to the GSS. However, > our DNS servers don't appear to be passing queries to the GSS. The only > records that exist within the zone are the NS record and the SOA. I've tried > changing the SOA to the GSS, as well as leaving the SOA blank. > > > > Apparently, we didn't purchase the ability for the GSS to act as a DNS > server itself, it's only purpose is to provide name resolution, at which > point it will query the load balancers at each site and respond with the VIP > from the least loaded site. > > > > Does anyone know of a method within Windows 2003 DNS to basically pass all > queries for a specific domain to an alternate name server? > > > > - Sean > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is > privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. > If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are > notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or > communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. * > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
