Windows Server ® 2008: Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition

Chapter 20. Optimizing DNS

• Understanding DNS 629

• Configuring Name Resolution on DNS Clients 635

• Installing DNS Servers 637

• Managing DNS Servers 645

• Managing DNS Records 649

• Updating Zone Properties and the SOA Record 655

• Managing DNS Server Configuration and Security 660

This chapter discusses the techniques you use to set up and manage Domain Name System (DNS) on a network. DNS is a name-resolution service that resolves computer names to IP addresses. When you use DNS, a fully qualified host name, omega.microsoft.com, for example, can be resolved to an IP address, which enables computers to find one another. DNS operates over the TCP/IP protocol stack and can be integrated with Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ...