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DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition
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DNS on Windows Server 2003, 3rd Edition

by Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, Robbie Allen
December 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
416 pages
13h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The DNS Console

To manage a Microsoft DNS Server and maintain your DNS data, you’ll use a tool called the DNS console, a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). MMC is a general-purpose program that hosts administrative tools. Introduced in Windows 2000, MMC replaced the “one-off” administrative tools found in Windows NT 4.0, such as DNS Manager, WINS Manager, DHCP Manager, and the like. The DNS console has a graphical user interface and is capable of managing multiple name servers. The DNS console is located on the Administrative Tools menu, provided you’ve already installed the DNS Server. The DNS console communicates with the Microsoft DNS Server using a proprietary management protocol built on Microsoft’s RPC (remote procedure call) mechanism. That means the DNS console is able to manage only Microsoft DNS Servers and not other name servers, such as BIND.

The main DNS console window looks like Figure 4-6 (or will look like it, after we’ve set everything up in the course of this chapter).

The DNS console main window
Figure 4-6. The DNS console main window

The left pane is called the console tree. It shows name servers, zones, and domains. The right pane shows either informational messages or resource records.

This particular DNS console knows about only one name server, terminator. That name server is authoritative for three zones: movie.edu, 249.249.192.in-addr.arpa, and 253.253.192.in-addr.arpa ...

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