royal wrote: Do you see a folder called Tuscon under your parent's DNS zone? If so, it's because you didn't create a delegation for your child domain prior to doing a DCpromo. Because of this, your parent DNS Zone is authoritative for all child domains or anything using that namespace. It therefore just creates a subfolder for your child domain. Remember to create a delegation prior to doing DCPromo on a child. If you really want your existing child to be authoritative for its own namespace, you could just install DNS on the child and do something like: On parent: dnscmd servername /ZoneExport childdomainFQDN /file filename.txt Delete Zone Create Delegation On child: Install DNS dnscmd servername /ZoneAdd childdomainFQDN /Primary /file filename.txt /load Then do all the other good stuff such as changing it to AD Integrated, Secure updates, replication, etc...
dynamik wrote: You'll need to add another zone, stub, or delegation. Child domains don't show up automatically.
Mmartin_47 wrote: dynamik wrote: You'll need to add another zone, stub, or delegation. Child domains don't show up automatically. What do you mean by add another zone? I created the child already. Isn't that creating another zone right there?
royal wrote: Mmartin_47 wrote: dynamik wrote: You'll need to add another zone, stub, or delegation. Child domains don't show up automatically. What do you mean by add another zone? I created the child already. Isn't that creating another zone right there? Just do what I said and you'll be fine. The domain DNS already exists as a domain in your parent zone. So yes, you still have to create a "zone" on your child with a delegation on your parent. Go through the steps I listed to do a "migration" of your information. And yes, James never mentions this. I spent about 2-3 days in a lab breaking and fixing my DNS for many hours trying to figure out on my own the correct method for using different DNS setups when working with child domains and different trees. Sounds like fun eh?
Mmartin_47 wrote: royal wrote: Do you see a folder called Tuscon under your parent's DNS zone? If so, it's because you didn't create a delegation for your child domain prior to doing a DCpromo. Because of this, your parent DNS Zone is authoritative for all child domains or anything using that namespace. It therefore just creates a subfolder for your child domain. Remember to create a delegation prior to doing DCPromo on a child. How can you delegate a child domain without first creating it? I know if I right click the parent zone (nuggetlab.com) and click new delegation it then asks for the delegated domain. Alright that would be tucson.nuggetlab.com What do I do afterwards?
royal wrote: Do you see a folder called Tuscon under your parent's DNS zone? If so, it's because you didn't create a delegation for your child domain prior to doing a DCpromo. Because of this, your parent DNS Zone is authoritative for all child domains or anything using that namespace. It therefore just creates a subfolder for your child domain. Remember to create a delegation prior to doing DCPromo on a child.
royal wrote: That's all you do for the delegation. What namespace are you delegating and what IP handles the delegation. Done.
