DNS on Windows 2000
DNS on Windows 2000
ISBN: 0596002300
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 154
Pages: 154
Authors: Matt Larson, Cricket Liu
- DNS on Windows 2000, 2nd Edition
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Versions
- What s New in This Edition
- Organization
- Audience
- Obtaining the Example Programs
- Conventions Used in This Book
- How to Contact Us
- Quotations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Background
- 1.1 A (Very) Brief History of the Internet
- 1.2 On the Internet and Internets
- 1.3 The Domain Name System, in a Nutshell
- 1.4 The History of the Microsoft DNS Server
- 1.5 Must I Use DNS?
- Chapter 2. How Does DNS Work?
- 2.1 The Domain Namespace
- 2.2 The Internet Domain Namespace
- 2.3 Delegation
- 2.4 Name Servers and Zones
- 2.5 Resolvers
- 2.6 Resolution
- 2.7 Caching
- Chapter 3. Where Do I Start?
- 3.1 Which Name Server?
- 3.2 Choosing a Domain Name
- Chapter 4. Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server
- 4.1 Our Zone
- 4.2 The DNS Console
- 4.3 Setting Up DNS Data
- 4.4 Running a Primary Master Name Server
- 4.5 Running a Slave Name Server
- 4.6 Adding More Zones
- 4.7 DNS Properties
- 4.8 What Next?
- Chapter 5. DNS and Electronic Mail
- 5.1 MX Records
- 5.2 Adding MX Records with the DNS Console
- 5.3 What s a Mail Exchanger, Again?
- 5.4 The MX Algorithm
- 5.5 DNS and Exchange
- Chapter 6. Configuring Hosts
- 6.1 The Resolver
- 6.2 Resolver Configuration
- 6.3 Advanced Resolver Features
- 6.4 Other Windows Resolvers
- 6.5 Sample Resolver Configurations
- Chapter 7. Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server
- 7.1 What About Signals?
- 7.2 Logging
- 7.3 Updating Zone Data
- 7.4 Zone Data File Controls
- Chapter 8. Growing Your Domain
- 8.1 How Many Name Servers?
- 8.2 Adding More Name Servers
- 8.3 Registering Name Servers
- 8.4 Changing TTLs
- 8.5 Planning for Disasters
- 8.6 Coping with Disaster
- Chapter 9. Parenting
- 9.1 When to Become a Parent
- 9.2 How Many Children?
- 9.3 What to Name Your Children
- 9.4 How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains
- 9.5 Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains
- 9.6 Good Parenting
- 9.7 Managing the Transition to Subdomains
- 9.8 The Life of a Parent
- Chapter 10. Advanced Features and Security
- 10.1 DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notification)
- 10.2 WINS Linkage
- 10.3 System Tuning
- 10.4 Name Server Address Sorting
- 10.5 Building Up a Large Sitewide Cache with Forwarders
- 10.6 A More Restricted Name Server
- 10.7 A Nonrecursive Name Server
- 10.8 Securing Your Name Server
- Chapter 11. New DNS Features in Windows 2000
- 11.1 Active Directory
- 11.2 Dynamic Update
- 11.3 Aging and Scavenging
- 11.4 Incremental Zone Transfer
- 11.5 Unicode Character Support
- Chapter 12. nslookup
- 12.1 Is nslookup a Good Tool?
- 12.2 Interactive Versus Noninteractive
- 12.3 Option Settings
- 12.4 Avoiding the Search List
- 12.5 Common Tasks
- 12.6 Less-Common Tasks
- 12.7 Troubleshooting nslookup Problems
- 12.8 Best of the Net
- Chapter 13. Troubleshooting DNS
- 13.1 Is DNS Really Your Problem?
- 13.2 Checking the Cache
- 13.3 Potential Problem List
- 13.4 Interoperability Problems
- 13.5 Problem Symptoms
- Chapter 14. Miscellaneous
- 14.1 Using CNAME Records
- 14.2 Wildcards
- 14.3 A Limitation of MX Records
- 14.4 DNS and Internet Firewalls
- 14.5 Dial-up Connections
- 14.6 Network Names and Numbers
- 14.7 Additional Resource Records
- Appendix A. DNS Message Format and Resource Records
- A.1 Master File Format
- A.2 DNS Messages
- A.3 Resource Record Data
- Appendix B. Installing the DNS Server from CD-ROM
- Appendix C. Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server
- C.1 Step 1: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to File
- C.2 Step 2: Stop the Microsoft DNS Server
- C.3 Step 3: Change the Zone Data File Naming Convention
- C.4 Step 4: Copy the Files
- C.5 Step 5: Get a New Root Name Server Cache File
- C.6 Step 6: Restart the DNS Server
- C.7 Step 7: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to Registry
- Appendix D. Top-Level Domains
- Colophon
- INDEX
- SYMBOL
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
DNS on Windows 2000
ISBN: 0596002300
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 154
Pages: 154
Authors: Matt Larson, Cricket Liu