Question

You have just brought online a new secondary DNS server and notice your network-monitoring software reports a significant increase in network traffic. Which two hosts on your network are likely to be causing the increased traffic and why?

a. The caching and primary DNS servers, because the caching server is requesting zone transfers from the primary server
b. The secondary and primary DNS servers, because the secondary server is requesting zone transfers from the primary server
c. The root and primary DNS servers, because the primary server is requesting zone transfers from the root server
d. The web server and primary DNS server, because the web server is requesting zone transfers from the primary DNS server

Answer 1

b. The secondary and primary DNS servers, because the secondary server is requesting zone transfers from the primary server

Step-by-step explanation:

The two hosts on the network that are likely to cause the increased traffic are The secondary and primary DNS servers, this is so because the secondary server is requesting zone transfers from the primary server