AD DNS servers across WAN

Hi, I have inherited a network that looks to be running 2 separate DNS servers on each side of a WAN. Both are DCs of the same Domain.
The issue is one side of the WAN sometimes has trouble pinging DHCP clients that are on the other side.
Each side has its own DHCP and DNS, and it looks like neither DNS is setup as a secondary..
My question is what is best practice in this situation? If I setup site 2 as a secondary DNS server, will it have the same issues resolving DHCP clients?
Thanks,
Dekkar

If I understand well your problem, you are having troubles to ping clients on the other site. If this is the case then you can start with the following steps:
Try to ping a client on the other site using its IP address. If it is successful while it is not the case when you ping it using its DNS name then there should be a problem with your DNS resolution. To check it, you can use
nslookup. If the clients are not getting registered then you need to check that your DNS servers accept DNS dynamic registration and that your computers are configured to register their DNS records (If this does not help then you can try to
temporary disable security software in use as they might blocking DNS registration too)
If the IP ping is not successful then the problem should not be related to the DNS resolution. In this case, you need to make sure that ICMP is not blocked by a firewall (On the computer or the network level).
tracert should help to let you know on which level the ICMP requests are getting dropped.
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