MS DNS gurus in here please!

Raumarik

Raumarik

Raumarik

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Scenario - 70 sites, most of which have their own local DNS server (2003 standard edition), all on separate domains and no trusts permitted between them.

I have a central server (2008 standard) with DNS server on it, I'd like the various sites to feed DNS to this central server, but for it never to feed anything back, essentially one-way. Again no trusts can be used.

In theory I could just shove them all in the DNS section of the central server NIC settings, but it'll take a long time to resolve as the links between sites is fairly slow at times, that's partly why I'd prefer for the central server to have it's own DNS list and look to itself instead.

Any suggested ways of doing it? Unfortunately DNS is not my strong point.
 
Won't that simply try and resolve via the external DNS servers rather than look to itself? I'd ideally want the external ones updating the DNS on the central server and it looking to itself if you see what I mean :) I have been looking at zone transfers but don't really want to start setting this up if I'm barking up the wrong tree :) one of the problems I can see me having with this is that some of the domains, not all don't have unique IDs, they are computer.internal or computer.building.internal (when there's two domains in the same physical building). These were set up many years ago and with the volume of computers involved I don't really want to start changing it now.
 
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