I have a win2003 DNS Server running my Primary Zones.

My question is, if there a way (Software, Script, Copying Registry Tree from Primary and dns folders, etc) of creating secondary zones on a new server automatically; without me having to type in every zone configured on my Primary DNS.

Thanks in advance,

Sebastian

DNS was designed specifically for what you are describing, you want to create a secondary zone on the secondary server and replicate or do zone transfers from the primary to the secondary. Happens every second on the Internet somewhere.

Thanks for the response.

I am aware of how DNS works. What I want is some tool, that lets me automate the creation of the secondary zones. If possible, I would like to steer around entering 100+ zones manually.

Basically some tool that iterates through the zones on Pri DNS and creates secondary zones on the Sec DNS.

Thanks.

WMI and ADSI scripts should help you achieve this goal. You can schedule the script via the task scheduler which can run at a specified time and create the zones for you. Replication should occur automatically once the zones are created.

Chance are that you will need to manually enter the zones in the secondary server. Also note that by default on Win2003 the DNS fowarding has changed. It will by default only foward to the addresses on the name servers. If you DNS is on a seperate box than your websites, you will have to edit each primary zone to foward to a specific IP address, and this can be a lot of work if you have hundreds or thousands of domains. I would suggest using SimpleDNS. This will lighten your workload considerably.