Chapter 20. Optimizing DNS

This chapter discusses the techniques you'll use to set up and manage Domain Name System (DNS) on a network. DNS is a name resolution service that resolves computer names to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Using DNS, the fully qualified host name omega.microsoft.com, for example, could be resolved to an IP address, which enables computers to find one another. DNS operates over the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stack and can be integrated with Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and Active Directory directory service. Full integration with these Microsoft Windows networking features allows you to optimize DNS for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 domains.