I'm unclear what you hope to gain by doing this? Is DNS placing a measurable load on the DC? How big is the zone?
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Non AD integrated DNS In one of the projects the ADDC (win2k3) is heavily used and to buy the time, thinking to offload the DNS to standalone member server. This new server than hold DHCP/WINS and DNS offloading exclusive authentications to DC. Is there any disadvantage of running standalone DNS (NON AD integrated); apart from security. Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~