Hi
I'm currently in the process of configuring new Secondary DNS Servers which will host over 800 Secondary DNS zones. The problem I'm having after running a script to simply add the new Name Servers to all the Primary DNS Zones using the DNSCMD command"dnscmd . /recordadd ZoneName @ NS SecondaryDnsServerName" it will add the IP address as "UNKNOWN".
In order to get the zone transfer running the first time I ran another script that would ping the new secondary DNS Name servers from all the Primary DNS Servers and this added the correct IP address value. This allowed for the zones to transfer however the IP address would revert back to UNKNOWN and the future zone transfers would fail.
In the event logs of my Secondary DNS Servers I would get multiple Event 6525 errors for DNS Server Service:
A zone transfer request for the secondary zone zonename.internal was refused by the master DNS server at MASTER SERVER IP ADDRESS. Check the zone at the master server IP ADDRESS to verify that zone transfer is enabled to this server. To do so, use the DNS console, and select master server IP ADDRESS as the applicable server, then in secondary zone zonename.internal Properties, view the settings on the Zone Transfers tab. Based on the settings you choose, make any configuration adjustments there (or possibly in the Name Servers tab) so that a zone transfer can be made to this server.
The issue can be fixed by manually adding in the IP address in the name server tab for the effected Primary DNS Server however this isn't something I want to do for over 800 Primary DNS Servers. Has anyone experienced this issue before and how can
we get the IP address to stay in the Names Servers tab using the DNSCMD command as the one I provided above doesn't seem to work.