How do you get a MS NT DNS server to recieve periodic updates from another DNS server over the internet?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Aug 16 01:17:18 UTC 1999


In article <37b7739d.814023 at news.chariot.net.au>,
Matthew <wilco at wantree.com.au> wrote:
>I have an NT Server running the DNS service and need it to recieve
>it's updates from another DNS server over the internet periodically.
>Our site presently uses dial on demand ISDN to access the DNS server
>and response is very slow due to the dialing up to the ISP before
>resolving a host name on the LAN.
>How do I get the MS NT DNS server to recieve it's updates from the DNS
>server on the net?

If you configure your server as a secondary server for the domains that are
on the other DNS server, it will periodically transfer those zones and
won't need to dial up to look things up in those domains.

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