I am using delegation since the inside servers are 2K (It is my
understanding that only 2k3 support stub zones) If that isn't true please
let me know.

It returns the NS records fine but won't return A records - it just gives me
'non existant domain' errors



Blake

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> wrote in message
news:O8yVt5HSGHA.5780@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Blake wrote:
>> The current configuration is: 2 internal DNS servers (running
>> Windows 2000) and 2 external DNS servers (running Windows 2003) in a
>> 'split name space' configuration.
>>
>> Our internal servers have an AD integrated zone called 'school.edu'
>> (not really, but you get the idea). Our external servers have a
>> static zone called 'school.edu' and an updatable zone called
>> 'student.school.edu'. Dynamic DNS creates records in the latter.
>>
>> I want to set up a delegation from the inside to the outside (so I
>> don't have to do zone transfers from the outside to the inside). I
>> have setup a delegation within our AD integrated zone for
>> 'student.school.edu' and it is populated with our external name
>> servers. But I can't get any hosts to resolve.
>>
>> ping host.student.school.edu
>> non existent domain
>>
>> However if I run nslookup:
>>
>> set type=ns
>> student.school.edu
>>
>> I get the correct NS information.
>
> It sounds like it should work.
> If nslookup returns the NS records, does it also return any records known
> to
> exist?
>
> Are you using a stub zone or a delegation?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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