How to separate DNS with DC

Question

_{Tuesday, June 20, 2017 3:05 PM}

Hi,

I'm really newbie with windows server active directory and hope someone can provide the instruction about how to set domain control and DNS on the different server. I have sevral virtual server with windows server 2012 in hyperV. I know it is not difficult to integrate DNS with DC in installation wizard. However. I'd like to create DNS and DC on the different server. So that the other client server could be resloved via the separate DNS. How could I achieve this? Thanks in advance.

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_{Tuesday, June 20, 2017 7:12 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Well, the simplest (and probably the most reliable) solution would be to just set up the DNS role on the second server, have it host the appropriate zones (EDIT: you need to use DNS zone transfers here since a DNS server that is not a DC cannot load  the zone directly from AD) and point the clients to the dedicated DNS instead of DC.

Trying to truly separate DC and DNS is not really a worthwhile endeavour.

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_{Wednesday, June 21, 2017 2:35 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Jamsyan，

AS Evgenij Smirnov said, you should configure the second DNS server as AD integrated DNS. Also you could configure other DNS role on DC, then you will have DNS redundancy.

In addition, you could refer to the following steps to configure AD integrated DNS zone:

1.Right-click Forward lookup zone and select “New Zone”.

2.On the “Welcome to new zone wizard”, click on next to continue.

3.In the “Zone type” window, select the type of  zone that you want to use. For this practical we’ll use AD Integrated.

4. On “Active Directory Zone Replication Scope”. we can select how we want DNS data replicated throughout our network. Here, we select “To all DNS servers running on domain controllers in this domain:abc.com “. Click on Next to continue.

More information please refer to the following article:

http://www.itingredients.com/how-to-configure-ad-integrated-dns-zone-windows-server-2012-r2/

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Best Regards,

Candy

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