How do I set up a conditional forwarder?

How do I set up a conditional forwarder?

How-To

1. 1) Open DNS Manager. Open the Run box using Win+R, type dnsmgmt.msc, and click OK.
2. 2) Open the New Conditional Forwarder Window. Right click Conditional Forwarders under the server of your choosing, then select New Conditional Forwarder…
3. 3) Configure the new conditional forwarder.

What is conditional forwarder in DNS?

Conditional forwarders are DNS servers that only forward queries for specific domain names. Instead of forwarding all queries it cannot resolve locally to a forwarder, a conditional forwarder is configured to forward name queries to specific forwarders based on the domain name contained in the query.

What is the difference between forwarder and conditional forwarder?

Conditional forwarder can be used to send queries related to certain domains to your specific domain name server,whereas forwarder is used to forward all the queries from AD DNS to the domain name server.

What is forwarder and conditional forwarder?

Forwarding is when a DNS request is forwarded from one DNS server to another. Conditional forwarding is when a condition is applied to which DNS requests are forwarding and which are not.

What port does DNS forwarding use?

TCP port 53
The reality is that DNS queries can also use TCP port 53 if UDP port 53 is not accepted. Now with the impending deployment of DNSSEC and the eventual addition of IPv6 we will need to allow our firewalls for forward both TCP and UDP port 53 packets.

What is forwarder in Active Directory?

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches Conditional forwarders are created to enable your DNS servers to forward requests to a specific domain. A normal forwarder will forward all requests to one or more DNS servers; a conditional forwarder will only forward requests for the one domain.

What is conditional forwarder in DNS server 2008?

Conditional DNS forwarding is used to forward DNS request to other DNS server in order to resolve the DNS query.

What is the default behavior of conditional forwarders?

When the DNS server receives a query for a record in a zone that it is not authoritative for, and is configured to use Conditional Forwarders for it, the default behavior is the following: Client queries the DNS server. DNS server immediately forwards the query to its first conditional forwarder

Where is the forwardertimeout for conditional forwarders?

Since Conditional Forwarders are configured for specific zones, the ForwarderTimeout is zone-dependent as well. It’s saved in the registry under HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\DNS Server\\Zones\\ \\ForwarderTimeout.

What is the default forwarder timeout on Windows Server?

It’s saved in the registry under HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\DNS Server\\Zones\\ \\ForwarderTimeout. The default value is 5 seconds on Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2 and 2012. This is also the setting you can see in the Conditional Forwarders GUI.

Where can I find the forwardingtimeout in the registry?

It’s saved in the registry under HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\DNS\\Parameters\\**ForwardingTimeout and configurable via dnscmd /config /ForwardingTimeout . The ForwardingTimeout is defined at DNS server level and is independent from the specific zone queried.