Book description
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, 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
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Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- 1. Background
- 2. How Does DNS Work?
- 3. Where Do I Start?
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4. Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server
- 4.1. Our Zone
- 4.2. Installing the Microsoft DNS Server
- 4.3. The DNS Console
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4.4. Setting Up DNS Data
- 4.4.1. Adding a New Server to the DNS Console
- 4.4.2. Creating a New Zone
- 4.4.3. Creating a New Reverse-Mapping Zone
- 4.4.4. Adding Resource Records
- 4.4.5. Where Is All This Information Stored?
- 4.4.6. The Zone Datafiles
- 4.4.7. Zone Datafile Format
- 4.4.8. The Loopback Address
- 4.4.9. The Root Hints Data
- 4.5. Running a Primary Master Name Server
- 4.6. Running a Secondary Name Server
- 4.7. Adding More Zones
- 4.8. DNS Properties
- 4.9. What Next?
- 5. DNS and Electronic Mail
- 6. Configuring Hosts
- 7. Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server
- 8. Integrating with Active Directory
- 9. Growing Your Domain
- 10. Parenting
- 11. Advanced Features and Security
- 12. nslookup and dig
- 13. Managing DNS from the Command Line
- 14. Managing DNS Programmatically
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15. Troubleshooting DNS
- 15.1. Is DNS Really Your Problem?
- 15.2. Checking the Cache
- 15.3. Using DNSLint
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15.4. Potential Problem List
- 15.4.1. 1. Forget to Increment Serial Number
- 15.4.2. 2. Forget to Restart Primary Master Server
- 15.4.3. 3. Name Server Loses Manual Changes
- 15.4.4. 4. Secondary Server Can’t Load Zone Data
- 15.4.5. 5. Add Address to Zone, but Forget to Add Corresponding PTR Record
- 15.4.6. 6. Wrong Domain Name in RDATA of Record
- 15.4.7. 7. Loss of Network Connectivity
- 15.4.8. 8. Missing Subdomain Delegation
- 15.4.9. 9. Incorrect Subdomain Delegation
- 15.5. Interoperability Problems
- 15.6. Problem Symptoms
- 16. Miscellaneous
- A. DNS Message Format and Resource Records
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B. Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server
- B.1. Step 1: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to File
- B.2. Step 2: Stop the Microsoft DNS Server
- B.3. Step 3: Change the Zone Datafile Naming Convention
- B.4. Step 4: Copy the Files
- B.5. Step 5: Get a New Root Name Server Cache File
- B.6. Step 6: Restart the DNS Server
- B.7. Step 7: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to Registry
- C. Top-Level Domains
- Index
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2003
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596005627
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