Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Stub zones

A stub zone is a read-only copy of a master zone but contains only SOA and NS records. It is not an authoritative DNS server for that zone. Stub zones are not a replacement for secondary zones, and they cannot be used for load sharing or redundancy purposes. Some think stub zones and conditional forwarders do the same thing, but they are completely different. A conditional forwarder has a list of DNS servers that can help your DNS server to resolve DNS queries for a specific domain. Once your DNS server receives a query for that domain, it forwards the query to the servers list in the conditional forwarder. This may or may not include all the authoritative DNS servers for the domain. A stub zone is aware of all the authoritative ...