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secondaryzone
About this tag
The secondaryzone tag covers discussions about secondary DNS zones in Windows environments, particularly issues with FQDN resolution. In one thread, a user describes a setup where a primary DNS zone handles internal hostnames while a secondary zone manages secure application FQDNs mapped to internal IPs. Internal users can resolve primary zone records but intermittently fail to load FQDNs from the secondary zone, even though they point to the same IPs. This highlights common troubleshooting scenarios involving secondary zone configuration, replication, and resolution behavior in Windows DNS servers.
We have configured multiple DNS zones in our environment. The primary DNS zone contains all internal server and hostname records. Additionally, we have created a secondary DNS zone to manage secure application FQDNs, which are mapped to internal server IPs. For public access, corresponding...
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secondaryzone
securefqdn
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