Domain Trust Conditional Forwarder

Run the following command in an elevated powershell session to configure dns forwarding.

Domain trust conditional forwarder. Instructions to setup a conditional dns forwarder for external domain name resolution using windows server 2012 r2 are described below. For example in my lab environment. These steps allow the hgs to locate the fabric domain controllers and validate group membership of the hyper v hosts. Therefore in the forest root domain you would create a delegation zone with the ips of the dns servers in the child domain.

When a dns server receives a client query request for a host address that is not part of its authoritative namespace it starts a resolution process beginning with a root name server and continues the process until the name is resolved. In the console tree double click the applicable dns server. We recommend that the domain controller is also a dns server. Conditional forwarding on my dns servers solved my 2 month long battle with a trust relationship between 2 domains on different subnets between 2 routers.

Now ping the domain fyi. A conditional forwarder allows an organization to resolve names to a private namespace or speed up name resolution to a public namespace. Use the following steps to set up dns forwarding and establish a one way trust with the fabric domain. Configure your domain that will be used for the trust so that it can talk from your domain.

We have conditional fowarders setup in dns on both ends. Under the domain trust properties under name suffix routing we have the correct suffix enabled for that trust relationship. I had been thinking it was a routing issue up until i saw this post tonight in which you explained to use conditional forwarding rules on the dns servers instead of the secondary dns zone solution which i ve been using. Parent child dns zone delegation.

Before establishing forest domain trust we need to set up conditional forwarders or secondary zone. This way the conditional forwarder will be available domain or forest wide. Right click on conditional forwarder and then select new conditional forwarder.