Forwarder Conditional Stub Zone Secondary Zone

Forwarder
Allows you to forward Allows you to place Can dynamically update Is a read only copy of a
requests from one DNS conditions on itself. primary or another
server to another which DNS request Contains SOA, NS and secondary zone.
to be resolved. is send to which Host A records. Can be a copy of an AD
Statically updated DNS server. list of Name Servers integrated zone.
Statically updated records from the other Supported on non-
Domain. These records Microsoft DNS. Will work
are called glue records with Linux or Unix.

Often used to forward Company A buys Transfer of records only The secondary will
DNS request from a company B. Both includes the glue A transfer the entire zone
Internal DNS server to company’s want to records database.
the ISP’s DNS server share data. A Changes cannot be made
configures a Stub Zone is a forward directly on the secondary
Company has internal Conditional lookup Zone. (resolves DNS server. The changes
DNS server that they forwarder to B and name to IP address) must be made on the
don’t want directly B configures a CF Can be stored in Active master server that holds
connected to the to A Directory the zone. But because it
internet Are read-only contains an exact copy of
Can be stored in Stub Zones are pointers the primary it is
Active Directory that will point one DNS considered authoritative
server to another DNS for that zone.
server
Cannot be stored in Active
Directory.
Will replicate all zone
data, so the zone
transfers could become
large.

Doesn’t participate “Allow Zone Transfers” The source must be

in Zone transfers Source must be configured to allow zone
configured to allow zone transfers.
transfers.
Enables a DNS server to Zone transfers preferably
perform recursion using from servers listed on the
the stub zones list of name servers tab
authorized servers,
without having to query
the internet.
No redundancy Enhances redundancy