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DNS on Windows 2000, Second Edition

By
Matt Larson, Cricket Liu
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
September 2001
Pages:
352

Product Editions

Please consider the latest edition.

  1. DNS on Windows Server 2003, Third Edition - December 2003
  2. DNS on Windows 2000, Second Edition - September 2001
  3. DNS on Windows NT - October 1998 (out of print)
Description
This special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND is a guide to one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail, and many other services. Covers server setup and maintenance along with Windows-specific topics like integration between DNS and Active Directory, conversion from BIND to the Microsoft DNS server, and registry settings.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Background

    1. A (Very) Brief History of the Internet

    2. On the Internet and Internets

    3. The Domain Name System, in a Nutshell

    4. The History of the Microsoft DNS Server

    5. Must I Use DNS?

  2. Chapter 2 How Does DNS Work?

    1. The Domain Namespace

    2. The Internet Domain Namespace

    3. Delegation

    4. Name Servers and Zones

    5. Resolvers

    6. Resolution

    7. Caching

  3. Chapter 3 Where Do I Start?

    1. Which Name Server?

    2. Choosing a Domain Name

  4. Chapter 4 Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server

    1. Our Zone

    2. The DNS Console

    3. Setting Up DNS Data

    4. Running a Primary Master Name Server

    5. Running a Slave Name Server

    6. Adding More Zones

    7. DNS Properties

    8. What Next?

  5. Chapter 5 DNS and Electronic Mail

    1. MX Records

    2. Adding MX Records with the DNS Console

    3. What's a Mail Exchanger, Again?

    4. The MX Algorithm

    5. DNS and Exchange

  6. Chapter 6 Configuring Hosts

    1. The Resolver

    2. Resolver Configuration

    3. Advanced Resolver Features

    4. Other Windows Resolvers

    5. Sample Resolver Configurations

  7. Chapter 7 Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server

    1. What About Signals?

    2. Logging

    3. Updating Zone Data

    4. Zone Data File Controls

  8. Chapter 8 Growing Your Domain

    1. How Many Name Servers?

    2. Adding More Name Servers

    3. Registering Name Servers

    4. Changing TTLs

    5. Planning for Disasters

    6. Coping with Disaster

  9. Chapter 9 Parenting

    1. When to Become a Parent

    2. How Many Children?

    3. What to Name Your Children

    4. How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains

    5. Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains

    6. Good Parenting

    7. Managing the Transition to Subdomains

    8. The Life of a Parent

  10. Chapter 10 Advanced Features and Security

    1. DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notification)

    2. WINS Linkage

    3. System Tuning

    4. Name Server Address Sorting

    5. Building Up a Large Sitewide Cache with Forwarders

    6. A More Restricted Name Server

    7. A Nonrecursive Name Server

    8. Securing Your Name Server

  11. Chapter 11 New DNS Features in Windows 2000

    1. Active Directory

    2. Dynamic Update

    3. Aging and Scavenging

    4. Incremental Zone Transfer

    5. Unicode Character Support

  12. Chapter 12 nslookup

    1. Is nslookup a Good Tool?

    2. Interactive Versus Noninteractive

    3. Option Settings

    4. Avoiding the Search List

    5. Common Tasks

    6. Less-Common Tasks

    7. Troubleshooting nslookup Problems

    8. Best of the Net

  13. Chapter 13 Troubleshooting DNS

    1. Is DNS Really Your Problem?

    2. Checking the Cache

    3. Potential Problem List

    4. Interoperability Problems

    5. Problem Symptoms

  14. Chapter 14 Miscellaneous

    1. Using CNAME Records

    2. Wildcards

    3. A Limitation of MX Records

    4. DNS and Internet Firewalls

    5. Dial-up Connections

    6. Network Names and Numbers

    7. Additional Resource Records

  1. Appendix A DNS Message Format and Resource Records

    1. Master File Format

    2. DNS Messages

    3. Resource Record Data

  2. Appendix B Installing the DNS Server from CD-ROM

  3. Appendix C Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server

    1. Step 1: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to File

    2. Step 2: Stop the Microsoft DNS Server

    3. Step 3: Change the Zone Data File Naming Convention

    4. Step 4: Copy the Files

    5. Step 5: Get a New Root Name Server Cache File

    6. Step 6: Restart the DNS Server

    7. Step 7: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to Registry

  4. Appendix D Top-Level Domains

  5. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
DNS on Windows 2000, Second Edition
By:
Matt Larson, Cricket Liu
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
September 2001
Pages:
352
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00230-5
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00230-0
Customer Reviews
About the Authors

  1. Matt Larson

    Matt Larson started Acme Byte & Wire, a company specializing in DNS consulting and training, with Cricket Liu in January 1997. Previously, he worked for Hewlett-Packard, first as Cricket's successor as hp.com hostmaster, then as a consultant in HP's Professional Services Organization. Matt graduated from Northwestern University in 1992 with two degrees: a bachelor of arts in computer science and a bachelor of music in church music/organ performance. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Sonja Kahler, and their two pugs. In his spare time he enjoys playing the 10-rank pipe organ in his house and flying light airplanes. Cricket worked for five and a half years at Hewlett-Packard's Corporate Network Services, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world, and helped design the HP Internet's security architecture. Cricket left HP in 1997 to start his own company, Acme Byte & Wire, with his friend and co-author Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme Byte & Wire in June of 2000, and then subsequently, Network Solutions merged with VeriSign. Cricket became Director of DNS Product Management of the merged company, helping determine which new DNS-related products VeriSign would offer.

    View Matt Larson's full profile page.

  2. Cricket Liu

    Cricket Liu matriculated at the University of California's Berkeley campus, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered Unix, and cheap pizza. He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduation and worked for HP for nine years. Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly transferred the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices (by cracking a sprinkler main and flooding Labs' computer room). Cricket was hostmaster@hp.com for over three years, and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization to cofound HP's Internet Consulting Program. Cricket left HP in 1997 to form Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company, with his friend (and now co-author) Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme in June 2000, and later the same day merged with VeriSign. Cricket worked for a year as Director of DNS Product Management for VeriSign Global Registry Services. Cricket joined Men & Mice, an Icelandic company specializing in DNS software and services, in September, 2001. He is currently their Vice President, Research & Development. Cricket, his wife, Paige, and their son, Walt, live in Colorado with two Siberian Huskies, Annie and Dakota. On warm weekend afternoons, you'll probably find them on the flying trapeze or wakeboarding behind Betty Blue.

    View Cricket Liu's full profile page.

Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of DNS on Windows 2000 is an African white-necked raven (Corvus albicollis,) a subspecies of raven, the largest of the crow-like birds at about 24 inches long. The sexes look alike; the female is slightly smaller. Perceived as spirited or even impudent, ravens have a distinctive, hoarse, carrying call. They are excellent flyers, hovering and gliding, and are safe in flight from predators. Ravens are scavengers and eat carrion and small live animals, as well as some plants. They sometimes hide and store excess food, and will occasionally carry food in their feet.

African raven nests, built in niches in rocks, are crafted of an underlying stick structure, covered by grass, dirt, and rocks, then smaller twigs with soft materials such as moss or rags, and finally a layer of grass or similar plant material. Ravens lay 3 to 6 mottled grayish-green eggs, and the young hatch after 18 to 20 days of incubation. Both parents (a pair mated for life) will change the nest lining materials to adjust for changes in temperature and climate.

The raven is a popular figure, both profane and sacred, in many legends. Ravens, along with their relatives jays and crows, have long been considered omens of evil in folklore, possibly due to the supposed annual tribute in feathers paid to the Devil; this legend is probably based on the molting of feathers every summer, during which the raven stays relatively well hidden--only this and nothing more. The Old Testament lists ravens among "unclean" birds; ravens also fed Elijah by the brook. Other ancient and medieval cultures considered the raven a symbol of virility or wisdom. An ancient Norse saga describes the use of ravens by ocean navigators as guides to land, and Norse mythology describes ravens as scouts for Odin. Native American folklore tells that the raven created the world and its creatures.

Because it preys on locusts, mice, and rats, the white-necked raven is generally welcomed in Africa (despite the occasional theft of domestic fowl). Like that of many other wild animals, the raven's habitat is dwindling with expansion of the human population. Rachel Wheeler was the production editor and proofreader for DNS onWindows 2000, and Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the copyeditor. Mary Brad provided quality control, and Sada Preisch, Kimo Carter, and Edie Shapiro provided production assistance. Nancy Crumpton wrote the index.

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

Melanie Wang designed the interior layout, based on a series design by David Futato. Anne-Marie Vaduva converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Nancy Kotary.

Whenever possible, our books use a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds this binding's limit, perfect binding is used.

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