Description
Book SynopsisThis is a Windows-oriented edition of DNS and BIND, newly updated to document the many changes to DNS, large and small, found in Windows Server 2003. The system is explained 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.
Table of ContentsPreface; 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 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; Master File Format; DNS Messages; Resource Record Data; B. Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server; C. Top-Level Domains Index
