Planing DNS Servers

[Lus]

hi, i wana know what's realationship between recursion and roothints ? ( in private network )

if a DNSserver1 wants start recursion query, where is the first location to start ?

thankx

[fizban2]

How do you want to configure the root hints? they should be setup automatically on a DNS install. is this a AD intergrated zone or no? if this is just an internal DNS server, the only roothint you would need is for DNSserver1,

if you configure roots hints on an internal DNS server for just that server, it will believe it is a root DNS server and never go out to any other DNS servers for requests, if it doesn't have the record there then it doesn't exist in its mind. As for the recursion, it will start at the first server that is authortative for the zone that the query is being done on. so internally it will look and your DNSserver1 first.

[Lus]

thankx,

i wana plan an forest with 50 child domain, for improve name resolution i wana use Root hins and Stubzone, the problem is i don't know how root hint and recursion are contact with each other and how design root hint ?

any link and exprience is usefull

all DNS zone are integerate with AD - use Secure update

[fizban2]

50 sub-domains? why the reason for so many domains?