DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition

Create a New Zone

This new server will be a secondary for every zone on the primary, so we’ll have to go through the new zone process for each zone. Let’s start with movie.edu. Select Action → New Zone. This time, select Secondary zone in the second window of the wizard. In the third window, select Forward lookup zone. The fourth window is shown in Figure 4-29.

Figure 4-29. Creating a new secondary zone: specifying the zone’s domain name

In the Zone name field, enter the domain name of the zone (in this case, movie.edu). Click Next to move to the next window, shown in Figure 4-30.

Figure 4-30. Creating a new secondary zone: specifying master servers

At this point, the processes of creating a primary master zone and a secondary zone really diverge. This is the screen where you specify where this name server will get the zone data. In this example, we’re making wormhole a secondary for the movie.edu zone. We need to tell wormhole to load the zone from terminator, the primary master. In fact, on this screen you can specify multiple IP addresses. In advanced (and complicated) configurations, a secondary can sometimes get the zone information from multiple primaries or multiple sources. The DNS console supports those configurations. You could also just specify the IP address of another secondary ...