Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Use Windows Server 2012 DNS whenever possible to support AD DS. If you must use a non-Windows DNS to host the AD zone, ensure that it supports SRV records, such as with BIND version 8.1.2 or later.
• Establish a caching-only server in small branch office situations to alleviate large amounts of client query traffic across the network and to eliminate the need to replicate entire DNS zones to remote locations.
• Configure DHCP to dynamically update DNS information for down-level clients if dynamic records are necessary.
• Identify the sources of dynamically updated information to prevent problems with reliability.
• Configure a DNS server to point to itself for DNS queries rather ...
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