I have a RedHat 7.1 box that we use for DNS in our System Engineering lab. We have a Windows 2000 box that handles DNS in our main office. The Microsoft Admin and I have been given the task of making both of our domains accessible to each other. I had originally made his domain my forwarder, so my domain could ping workstations on his domain via hostnames, but his workstations cannot ping my machines via hostnames.

The Microsoft Admin stated that he would not be able to make my domain a forwarder for his(my domain is technically the child), so he suggested that both domains be replication partners for each other. The Microsoft Admin has set up his DNS machine as a replication partner for my server, but I am having problems setting up my RedHat box as a replication partner for his. I do have a copy of A and NS records on my DNS server from the office domain, but I do not know what I need to type into /etc/named.conf. I tried typing in :

zone"mymachine.mydomain.com"{
allow-transfer {x.x.x.x;} ;
};
for my zone and his, but that did nothing. I also tried typing in:

zone "mymachine.mydomain.com" {
type slave;
file "master/mydomain.com";
masters {x.x.x.x;};
};
for both zones, once again, but to no avail. I am using BIND 8.x, which I am not sure supports multimaster replication or just does master-slave replication.

Any help I get will be greatly appreciated, and as always, make all smart a@@ comments funny, so that I may laugh as well!!