Say I have a zone "domain.com", but I just want to host one record off of it,
and if any other queries are made I want them forwarded to our ISP's DNS
Servers. When I create the primary zone "domain.com" and put a host record
in, like "prod.domain.com", then I try to ping "media.domain.com" it doesn't
forward, and it looks at my dns zone, fails, and doesn't even try to forward.
I have DNS fowarding addresses set to my ISP's dns servers. Any would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I think that when you create a primary zone, the DNS server will check this
before any kind of forwarding. If it finds that it is primary for the
domain, then it doesn't look any further.

However, try this and see if it works for you:

Leave the forwarding in place, and create a new primary zone called
prod.domain.com. Add a single A record, leaving the name blank so that it
uses the parent domain. Remove your other primary domain of domain.com.
Let me know if this solves the problem.

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"Curtis Rich" <CurtisRich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A849D23-1DD7-4B42-A85E-716E9C6670E3@microsoft.com...
> Say I have a zone "domain.com", but I just want to host one record off of
> it,
> and if any other queries are made I want them forwarded to our ISP's DNS
> Servers. When I create the primary zone "domain.com" and put a host
> record
> in, like "prod.domain.com", then I try to ping "media.domain.com" it
> doesn't
> forward, and it looks at my dns zone, fails, and doesn't even try to
> forward.
> I have DNS fowarding addresses set to my ISP's dns servers. Any
> would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

In news:%23t9Fhxf$GHA.204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,
Greg Lindsay [MSFT] <greglin@microsoft.com> stated, which I commented on
below:
> I think that when you create a primary zone, the DNS server will
> check this before any kind of forwarding. If it finds that it is
> primary for the domain, then it doesn't look any further.
>
> However, try this and see if it works for you:
>
> Leave the forwarding in place, and create a new primary zone called
> prod.domain.com. Add a single A record, leaving the name blank so
> that it uses the parent domain. Remove your other primary domain of
> domain.com. Let me know if this solves the problem.

Hi Greg,

I agree, that's one solution.

However what I see is that he would need to make a zone of the same formate
(child.domain.com) for each child name, such as prod, media, possibly 'www',
etc. In cases of a split zone scenario such as this (where more than likely
the AD DNS domain name is identical to the public zone name), it would be
easier just to make the domain.com name, and create each entry individually
as host records and proviode the actual external IP address.

On the other hand, for the 'www' record, (or any other record that may
change by the external hosting company), under the domain.com zone, create a
delegation called 'www' and provide the nameservers' IP and FQDN of the
public nameserver. The advantage to this is that if the ISP changes their
webserver IP address, (or whatever other resource), the change is automatic
because it will find it at the next query, and you won't need to update it
manually (that is if one realizes a change was made by the ISP).

I hope that s Curtis.

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Willow Grove, PA

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Curtis Rich wrote:
> Say I have a zone "domain.com", but I just want to host one record
> off of it, and if any other queries are made I want them forwarded to
> our ISP's DNS Servers. When I create the primary zone "domain.com"
> and put a host record in, like "prod.domain.com", then I try to ping
> "media.domain.com" it doesn't forward, and it looks at my dns zone,
> fails, and doesn't even try to forward. I have DNS fowarding
> addresses set to my ISP's dns servers. Any would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.

Delete the domain.com zone, create a new zone named prod.domain.com, in that
zone create one new host, leave the name field blank and give it the IP you
want prod.domain.com to resolve to. All other request in domain.com will be
forwarded.

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