Ok, Kevin I agree with you but the problem is that he only have problems
when ServerC is down and that shouldn't be a problem, because you can
refresh from other available secondary.

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I hope that the information above s you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> wrote in message
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> Chris Peikert wrote:
>> Hell yall got me confused now. Uhhh. Yea Forrest A DNS has a
>> secondary zone for each DNS server in Forrest B and vise versa for
>> Forrest B. Just like the diagram i made earlier in the discussions.
>> The problem is for some odd reason the Secondary zones tend to break
>> if the one server that Server A in Forrest A wants goes offline. I do
>> not know much about conditional forwarding or how to do it instead of
>> Secondary Zones. I am lucky to get DNS working period.
>
> If the Primary goes offline, it starts a countdown clock on the secondary,
> when the Expire time on the SOA record expires, the zone expires and will
> no
> longer answer with authority. By default the Expire time on a MS DNS
> Server's zone is 1 day. Meaning, if the link breaks you have less than one
> day to fix it, depending on when the last time the secondary refreshed its
> data.
> If you're running secondary zones I'd recommend increasing the Expire time
> to 2 weeks, the RFC recommended expire time is 2 to 4 weeks for public
> zones.
>
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> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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