Difference between forwarders and Stub zones

Dracula28Dracula28 Member Posts: 232
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Whats the difference between stub zones and forwarders? They both seem to do the same thing, forward queries to appropriate name servers who are authoritative for the domains in the queries.
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  • techster79techster79 Member Posts: 169 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Stub zones are dynamic, conditional forwarders are static. Both are only possible in 2003, keep this in mind for the test.
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  • dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Stub zones are capable of zone transfers (which only includes name servers), so they stay current. Forwarders do not.

    For example, if I'm forwarding DNS queries to my ISP, and they change their DNS servers, I have to manually update that. If someone in a child domain, which I've setup a stub zone for, adds or removes a DNS server, that change is automatically reflected in the stub zone.
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  • Dracula28Dracula28 Member Posts: 232
    Got it now, thanks for the explanation. :)
    Current certs: MCP (210) MCSA (270, 290, 291 and 680) MCTS (680, 640)
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  • royalroyal Member Posts: 3,352 ■■■■□□□□□□
    *looks at Mark* He knows what I'm talking about!
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  • sprkymrksprkymrk Member Posts: 4,884 ■■■□□□□□□□
    royal wrote:
    *looks at Mark* He knows what I'm talking about!

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    DNS Stub Zones, Conditional Forwarding, DHCP Superscopes, hmmm. It all sounds so familiar!
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  • SlowhandSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 Mod
    sprkymrk wrote:
    royal wrote:
    *looks at Mark* He knows what I'm talking about!

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    DNS Stub Zones, Conditional Forwarding, DHCP Superscopes, hmmm. It all sounds so familiar!


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