Not really, in fact the DNS zones have many Information, so Contional
Forwarding would be faster.

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> "JMS" <jms_pt@clix.pt> wrote in message
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>> Hello everyone
>>
>> My scenario is the following
>> two different trees
>>
>> First Site has 2 IpSubnets One Domain controller in each subnet, the DNS
>> is AD Integrated and replicates two all Dns Servers in the same domain,
>> both Domain controllers are GCs. This Site have a Tree Root Domain.
>>
>> Second Site has 1 Ip subnet, 1 Domain Controller is also a GC, the DNS is
>> AD Integrated and replicates two all Dns Servers in the same domain, This
>> site has a Second different Tree root domain.
>>
>> The problem:
>> On 2nd Site I have condicional forwarding to domain01 (Site1), and i have
>> especified the ip addresses of the two domain controllers in each
>> ipsubnet.
>
> So presumably you are running Win2003 (not Win2000) since
> it is the first to support Conditional Forwarding.
>
>> When one domain controller goes down, if I try to ping the domain01, it
>> takes some time until it figure out that the domain controller is down
>> and i get time out error, it takes some time until it start to ping the
>> second domain that is available.
>>
>> Is this the normal behavior?
>
> Not really but if these are small domain/zones you might be better
> off with replication across the entire forest (all Forest DNS-DCs).
>
> Then every DC would just hold all of the info and Conditional
> Forwarding would not be an issue.
>
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