JSI Tip 3637. How do I configure DNS Zone Transfer settings via the registry?

Jerold Schulman

April 29, 2001

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Information on the Zone Transfer tab of DNS Manager is located in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesDNSZones.

The Value Names are:

Value

Type

Default

D e s c r i p t i o n

NotifyLevel

REG_DWORD

1 - Standard primary2 - Active Directory–integrated

0 - DNS does NOT notify secondary servers when zone information changes. 1 - Notify only the name servers that are authoritative for the zone. 2 - Notify only the servers you specify in NotifyServers.

NotifyServers

REG_SZ

IP address[, IP address] ... is a list of secondary servers that this master DNS server notifies when zone information changes, if NotifyLevel is 2.

SecureSecondaries

REG_DWORD

0 - Standard primary3 - Active Directory–integrated

0 - Send zone transfers to all secondary servers that request them. 1 - Send zone transfers only to name servers that are authoritative for the zone. 2 - Send zone transfers only to servers you specify in SecondaryServers. 3 - Do not send zone transfers.

SecondaryServers

REG_SZ

IP address[, IP address] ... is a list of secondary servers to which this DNS server sends zone transfers, if SecureSecondaries is 2.

NOTE: These entries are NOT replicated to other DNS servers authoritative for this zone.

NOTE: You must restart the DNS service, as DNS only reads its registry entries when it starts.

NOTE: See tip 6731 for Windows Server 2003.


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