Description: 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;DNS Message Format and Resource Records; Master File Format; DNS Messages; Resource Record Data;Installing the DNS Server from CD-ROM;Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server; Step 1: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to File; Step 2: Stop the Microsoft DNS Server; Step 3: Change the Zone Data File Naming Convention; Step 4: Copy the Files; Step 5: Get a New Root Name Server Cache File; Step 6: Restart the DNS Server; Step 7: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to Registry;Top-Level Domains;Colophon;

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