Hi all,

I just changed our primary DNS on Win 2000 to a different box running
Win2003. The origianl W2K box is now serving as secondary DNS.

There are 6 forward lookup zones. I could add a new host and the changes are
reflected on secondary DNS for all 6 forward lookup zones.

However, there's 3 of them, the start of authority (SOA) still pointed to
the original DNS box. I have tried "transfer from master" and refresh.

What should I do or check so that SOA is pointing to the new primary DNS?
Thank you in advance.

coady wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just changed our primary DNS on Win 2000 to a different box running
> Win2003. The origianl W2K box is now serving as secondary DNS.
>
> There are 6 forward lookup zones. I could add a new host and the
> changes are reflected on secondary DNS for all 6 forward lookup zones.
>
> However, there's 3 of them, the start of authority (SOA) still
> pointed to the original DNS box. I have tried "transfer from master"
> and refresh.
>
> What should I do or check so that SOA is pointing to the new primary
> DNS? Thank you in advance.

Only Active Directory integrated masters automatically update the Primary
Name server (MNAME) on the SOA. If you move the Primary by doing a zone
transfer to a secondary then changing that secondary to a primary, you will
have to manually edit the Primary Name server on the SOA tab of zone
properties.

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Thank you for the information.

I did the zone transfer. So, my question now is that if I could just put the
curser in the field and modify it instead of browsing?

The reason I asked was if I browse for SOA primary server in one of the
forward lookup zones, the primary server is in the (same as parent folder).

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

> coady wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just changed our primary DNS on Win 2000 to a different box running
> > Win2003. The origianl W2K box is now serving as secondary DNS.
> >
> > There are 6 forward lookup zones. I could add a new host and the
> > changes are reflected on secondary DNS for all 6 forward lookup zones.
> >
> > However, there's 3 of them, the start of authority (SOA) still
> > pointed to the original DNS box. I have tried "transfer from master"
> > and refresh.
> >
> > What should I do or check so that SOA is pointing to the new primary
> > DNS? Thank you in advance.
>
> Only Active Directory integrated masters automatically update the Primary
> Name server (MNAME) on the SOA. If you move the Primary by doing a zone
> transfer to a secondary then changing that secondary to a primary, you will
> have to manually edit the Primary Name server on the SOA tab of zone
> properties.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
> Hope This s
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