Windows Server 2008 networks rely extensively on the Domain Name System
(DNS). It is important to understand how to set up, configure, and manage DNS
before deploying a Server 2008 network. In this section we will discuss how to
properly plan for and set up DNS.
You should first have a basic understanding of how DNS works. DNS was
developed to provide name resolution for IP addresses. When the pioneers of
TCP/IP networks were first developing the concept, they needed a way to uniquely
identify each computer on the network. They decided each computer would be
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