DNS on Windows Server 2003

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by: Cricket Liu, Matt Larsen & Robbie Allen

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DNS on Windows Server 20003 is a special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND, newly 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.

      Full 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, newly 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

  If you're a Windows administrator, DNS on Windows Server 2003 is the operations manual you need for working with DNS every day. If you're a Windows user who simply wants to take the mystery out of the Internet, this book is a readable introduction to the Internet's architecture and inner workings

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. Background

          A (Very) Brief History of the Internet

          On the Internet and Internets

          The Domain Name System in a Nutshell

          The History of the Microsoft DNS Server

          Must I Use DNS?

  2. How Does DNS Work?

          The Domain Namespace

          The Internet Domain Namespace

          Delegation

          Name Servers and Zones

          Resolvers

          Resolution

          Caching

  3. Where Do I Start?

          Which Name Server?

          Choosing a Domain Name

  4. Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server

          Our Zone

          Installing the Microsoft DNS Server

          The DNS Console

          Setting Up DNS Data

          Running a Primary Master Name Server

          Running a Secondary Name Server

          Adding More Zones

          DNS Properties

          What Next?

  5. DNS and Electronic Mail

          MX Records

          Adding MX Records with the DNS Console

          What's a Mail Exchanger, Again?

          The MX Algorithm

          DNS and Exchange

  6. Configuring Hosts

          The Resolver

          Resolver Configuration

          Advanced Resolver Features

          Other Windows Resolvers

          Sample Resolver Configurations

  7. Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server

          What About Signals?

          Logging

          Updating Zone Data

          Zone Datafile Controls

          Aging and Scavenging

  8. Integrating with Active Directory

          Active Directory Domains

          Storing Zones in Active Directory

          DNS as a Service Location Broker

  9. Growing Your Domain

          How Many Name Servers?

          Adding More Name Servers

          Registering Name Servers

          Changing TTLs

          Planning for Disasters

          Coping with Disaster

  10. Parenting

          When to Become a Parent

          How Many Children?

          What to Name Your Children

          How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains

          Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains

          Good Parenting

          Managing the Transition to Subdomains

          The Life of a Parent

  11. Advanced Features and Security

          New Ways to Make Changes

          WINS Linkage

          Building Up a Large, Sitewide Cache with Forwarders

          Load Sharing Between Mirrored Servers

          The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing

          Securing Your Name Server

  12. nslookup and dig

          Is nslookup a Good Tool?

          Interactive Versus Noninteractive

          Option Settings

          Avoiding the Search List

          Common Tasks

          Less Common Tasks

          Troubleshooting nslookup Problems

          Best of the Net

          Using dig

  13. Managing DNS from the Command Line

          Installing the DNS Server

          Stopping and Starting the DNS Server Service

          Managing the DNS Server Configuration

          An Installation and Configuration Batch Script

          Other Command-Line Utilities

  14. Managing DNS Programmatically

          WMI and the DNS Provider

          WMI Scripting with VBScript and Perl

          Server Classes

          Zone Classes

          Resource Record Classes

  15. Troubleshooting DNS

          Is DNS Really Your Problem?

          Checking the Cache

          Using DNSLint

          Potential Problem List

          Interoperability Problems

          Problem Symptoms

  16. Miscellaneous

          Using CNAME Records

          Wildcards

          A Limitation of MX Records

          DNS and Internet Firewalls

          Dial-up Connections

  A. DNS Message Format and Resource Records

  B. Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server

  C. Top-Level Domains

  Index