September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
24h 27m
English
A very important consideration when implementing IFD is to configure the Domain Name Service (DNS) properly. Setup doesn’t do this and the Forms Authentication page might not work without DNS properly configured. The DNS service is used to map a domain name to an IP address. Domains are mapped to IP addresses; for example, <www.domain name.com> equals 123.123.12.3. You can also add hosts below the domain as www, ftp, and so on, and map different IP addresses to them. An example of that might be <ftp.domain name.com> equals 123.123.12.4.
You must complete some necessary DNS configurations, and, depending on the DNS server you are using, the configurations could be different. You will see a sample in this section using ...