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DNS on Windows Server 2003

View Larger Image	Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, Robbie Allen O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published December 2003, 398 pages, ISBN 0596005628
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While computers and other devices identify each other on networks or the Internet by using unique addresses made up of numbers, humans rely on the Domain Name System (DNS), the distributed database that allows us to identify machines by name. DNS does the work of translating domain names into numerical IP addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services, so that users require little or no knowledge of the system. If you're a network or system administrator, however, configuring, implementing, and maintaining DNS zones can be a formidable challenge. And now, with Windows Server 2003, an understanding of the workings of DNS is even more critical.

DNS on Windows Server 20003 is a special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND, newly updated to document the many changes to DNS, large and small, found in Windows Server 2003. Veteran O'Reilly authors, Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, and Robbie Allen explain the whole system in terms of the new Windows Server 2003, from starting and stopping a DNS service to establishing an organization's namespace in the global hierarchy.

Besides covering general issues like installing, setting up, and maintaining the server, DNS on Windows Server 2003 tackles the many issues specific to the new Windows environment, including the use of the dnscmd program to manage the Microsoft DNS Server from the command line and development using the WMI DNS provider to manage the name server programmatically. The book also documents new features of the Microsoft DNS Server in Windows Server 2003, including conditional forwarding and zone storage in Active Directory (AD) application partitions.

DNS on Windows Server 2003 provides grounding in:

Security issues

System tuning

Caching

Zone change notification

Troubleshooting

Planning for growth

If you're a Windows administrator, DNS on Windows Server 2003 is the operations manual you need for working with DNS every day. If you're a Windows user who simply wants to take the mystery out of the Internet, this book is a readable introduction to the Internet's architecture and inner workings.

Preface

1. Background
A (Very) Brief History of the Internet
On the Internet and Internets
The Domain Name System, in a Nutshell
The History of the Microsoft DNS Server
Must I Use DNS?

2. How Does DNS Work?
The Domain Namespace
The Internet Domain Namespace
Delegation
Name Servers and Zones
Resolvers
Resolution
Caching

3. Where Do I Start?
Which Name Server?
Choosing a Domain Name

4. Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server
Our Zone
Installing the DNS Server
The DNS Console
Setting Up DNS Data
Running a Primary Master Name Server
Running a Secondary Name Server
Adding More Zones
DNS Properties
What Next?

5. DNS and Electronic Mail
MX Records
Adding MX Records with the DNS Console
What's a Mail Exchanger, Again?
The MX Algorithm
DNS and Exchange

6. Configuring Hosts
The Resolver
Resolver Configuration
Advanced Resolver Features
Other Windows Resolvers
Sample Resolver Configurations

7. Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server
What About Signals?
Logging
Updating Zone Data
Zone Datafile Controls
Aging and Scavenging

8. Integrating with Active Directory
Active Directory Domains
Storing Zones in Active Directory
DNS as a Service Location Broker

9. Growing Your Domain
How Many Name Servers?
Adding More Name Servers
Registering Name Servers
Changing TTLs
Planning for Disasters
Coping with Disaster

10. Parenting
When to Become a Parent
How Many Children?
What to Name Your Children
How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains
Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains
Good Parenting
Managing the Transition to Subdomains
The Life of a Parent

11. Advanced Features and Security
New Ways to Make Changes
WINS Linkage
Building Up a Large, Sitewide Cache with Forwarders
Load Sharing Between Mirrored Servers
The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing
Securing Your Name Server

12. nslookup and dig
Is nslookup a Good Tool?
Interactive Versus Noninteractive
Option Settings
Avoiding the Search List
Common Tasks
Less Common Tasks
Troubleshooting nslookup Problems
Best of the Net
Using dig

13. Managing DNS from the Command Line
Installing the DNS Server
Stopping and Starting the DNS Server Service
Managing the DNS Server Configuration
An Installation and Configuration Batch Script
Other Command-Line Utilities

14. Managing DNS Programmatically
WMI and the DNS Provider
WMI Scripting with VBScript and Perl
Server Classes
Zone Classes
Resource Record Classes

15. Troubleshooting DNS
Is DNS Really Your Problem?
Checking the Cache
Using DNSLint
Potential Problem List
Interoperability Problems
Problem Symptoms

16. Miscellaneous
Using CNAME Records
Wildcards
A Limitation of MX Records
DNS and Internet Firewalls
Dial-up Connections

A. DNS Message Format and Resource Records
Master File Format
DNS Messages
Resource Record Data

B. Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server

C. Top-Level Domains

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