DNS on Windows Server 2003

Preface; Versions; What's New in This Edition; Organization; Audience; Obtaining the Example Programs; Viewing Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; 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 Installing the Microsoft DNS Server; 4.3 The DNS Console; 4.4 Setting Up DNS Data; 4.5 Running a Primary Master Name Server; 4.6 Running a Secondary Name Server; 4.7 Adding More Zones; 4.8 DNS Properties; 4.9 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 Datafile Controls; 7.5 Aging and Scavenging; Chapter 8: Integrating with Active Directory; 8.1 Active Directory Domains; 8.2 Storing Zones in Active Directory; 8.3 DNS as a Service Location Broker; Chapter 9: Growing Your Domain; 9.1 How Many Name Servers?; 9.2 Adding More Name Servers; 9.3 Registering Name Servers; 9.4 Changing TTLs; 9.5 Planning for Disasters; 9.6 Coping with Disaster; Chapter 10: Parenting; 10.1 When to Become a Parent; 10.2 How Many Children?; 10.3 What to Name Your Children; 10.4 How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains; 10.5 Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains; 10.6 Good Parenting; 10.7 Managing the Transition to Subdomains; 10.8 The Life of a Parent; Chapter 11: Advanced Features and Security; 11.1 New Ways to Make Changes; 11.2 WINS Linkage; 11.3 Building Up a Large, Sitewide Cache with Forwarders; 11.4 Load Sharing Between Mirrored Servers; 11.5 The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing; 11.6 Securing Your Name Server; Chapter 12: nslookup and dig; 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; 12.9 Using dig; Chapter 13: Managing DNS from the Command Line; 13.1 Installing the DNS Server; 13.2 Stopping and Starting the DNS Server Service; 13.3 Managing the DNS Server Configuration; 13.4 An Installation and Configuration Batch Script; 13.5 Other Command-Line Utilities; Chapter 14: Managing DNS Programmatically; 14.1 WMI and the DNS Provider; 14.2 WMI Scripting with VBScript and Perl; 14.3 Server Classes; 14.4 Zone Classes; 14.5 Resource Record Classes; Chapter 15: Troubleshooting DNS; 15.1 Is DNS Really Your Problem?; 15.2 Checking the Cache; 15.3 Using DNSLint; 15.4 Potential Problem List; 15.5 Interoperability Problems; 15.6 Problem Symptoms; Chapter 16: Miscellaneous; 16.1 Using CNAME Records; 16.2 Wildcards; 16.3 A Limitation of MX Records; 16.4 DNS and Internet Firewalls; 16.5 Dial-up Connections; Appendix A: DNS Message Format and Resource Records; A.1 Master File Format; A.2 DNS Messages; A.3 Resource Record Data; Appendix B: Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server; B.1 Step 1: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to File; B.2 Step 2: Stop the Microsoft DNS Server; B.3 Step 3: Change the Zone Datafile Naming Convention; B.4 Step 4: Copy the Files; B.5 Step 5: Get a New Root Name Server Cache File; B.6 Step 6: Restart the DNS Server; B.7 Step 7: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to Registry; Appendix C: Top-Level Domains; Colophon;