Hi,

I keep losing a records on certain servers in a secondary zone. What I have
to do to make it work again is to reload the zone from the master. However,
why are only two or three servers losing their a records and not any other
server? I checked the settings on the servers and they are set to
automatically update it's dns. The primary zone that they belong to, the a
record if fine and never dissapears.

Thanks,

TKE402

Read inline please.

In news:8A5A9BDB-4DAD-4979-A0F0-3D3D1ECEE442@microsoft.com,
TKE402 <TKE402@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> Hi,
>
> I keep losing a records on certain servers in a secondary zone. What
> I have to do to make it work again is to reload the zone from the
> master. However, why are only two or three servers losing their a
> records and not any other server? I checked the settings on the
> servers and they are set to automatically update it's dns. The
> primary zone that they belong to, the a record if fine and never
> dissapears.


Verify that you are getting good zone transfers, and there isn't a
possibility that the Secondary is connecting from an IP that isn't in the
allow zone transfers list.

Secondary zones are read only copies, so individual records cannot be
deleted from a secondary zone, they have to be deleted from the Primary
zone.


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Thanks for the reply. Yes it looks like the zone transfers are good when they
are first reloaded from the master. The allow zone transfers list also looks
correct.

So if the secondary zone is read only copy your saying that the problem
probably traces back to the primary zone? In that case what is causing the
deleting of an a record in a primary zone of a server with a static ip and
properties set to dynamically update?

Thanks

TKE402

"TKE402" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I keep losing a records on certain servers in a secondary zone. What I have
> to do to make it work again is to reload the zone from the master. However,
> why are only two or three servers losing their a records and not any other
> server? I checked the settings on the servers and they are set to
> automatically update it's dns. The primary zone that they belong to, the a
> record if fine and never dissapears.
>
> Thanks,
>
> TKE402

Read inline please.

In news:87997728-CAF4-4311-BA2D-15298967F4AA@microsoft.com,
TKE402 <TKE402@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> Thanks for the reply. Yes it looks like the zone transfers are good
> when they are first reloaded from the master. The allow zone
> transfers list also looks correct.
>
> So if the secondary zone is read only copy your saying that the
> problem probably traces back to the primary zone?
IT has to be going back to the Primary, you cannot delete records from
secondary zones.

In that case what
> is causing the deleting of an a record in a primary zone of a server
> with a static ip and properties set to dynamically update?

Check to make sure the DHCP Client service is running, and that scavenging,
if enabled is not set to a too low threshold.


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