September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
With Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and many networking services, name resolution provides detailed information about how to connect to a particular service. For example, with Windows Server 2012 DNS servers and clients, a client system looking to find a Global Catalog server is presented not only with a list of names and IP addresses, it is also provided with the closest system to the network the system is connected to, and it also presents the port the client can connect to that service on. So, instead of just a name to IP address, advanced name-resolution services can make distinctions of the client location and provide a detailed response that improves network connectivity.
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