Organization
This book is organized, more or less, to follow the evolution of a zone and its administrator. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 discuss Domain Name System theory. Chapter 3 through Chapter 6 help you to decide whether to set up your own zones, then describe how to go about it, should you choose to. The middle chapters, Chapter 7 through Chapter 11, describe how to maintain your zones, configure hosts to use your name servers, plan for the growth of your zones, create subdomains, secure your name servers, and integrate DNS with Active Directory. The last chapters, Chapter 12 through Chapter 14, deal with common problems and troubleshooting tools.
Here’s a more detailed, chapter-by-chapter breakdown:
Chapter 1 provides a little historical perspective and discusses the problems that motivated the development of DNS, then presents an overview of DNS theory.
Chapter 2 goes over DNS theory in more detail, including the DNS namespace, domains, and name servers. We also introduce important concepts such as name resolution and caching.
Chapter 3 covers how to choose and acquire your DNS software if you don’t already have it and what to do with it once you’ve got it; that is, how to figure out what your domain name should be and how to contact the organization that can delegate your domain to you.
Chapter 4 details how to set up your first two name servers, including creating your name server database, starting up your name servers, and checking their operation.
Chapter 5 deals with ...
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