2003 trust question....

[decoy5657]

I’m going over a proof of concept idea for a huge domain migration and have two domains in a test environment. “OLD” and “NEW”

I have created a two way trust between these domains.

They are on the same subnet.

Each DC hosts its own DNS.

Each DC points to itself for resolution.

What is supposed to be done for DNS to resolve between these two domains? Add secondary zones for each domain to the other’s DNS server? Add each other to each others forwarders?

I have the trust, but when I’m managing either domain I can’t see the other domain to add users back and forth.

I’m missing something simple, I’ve done this before and I’m loosing my mind

[BlkCrowe]

You could create a forward lookup zone or stub zone in each Domain's DNS to point to the other Domain. This will allow both domains to resolve each other properly.

[fizban2]

if this is only a test lab, a stub zone for each domain would suffice, on the OLD domain DNS add a stub zone for the NEW domain, on the NEW domain, add a stub zone for the OLD domain, this way you won't have to worry about recrords being passed between DNS servers (stub zone hosts only the NS (and glue records) records for the domain that it is created for.