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DNS on Windows Server 2003
By Robbie Allen, Matt Larson, Cricket Liu
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: December 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00562-8
Pages	: 416

		Copyright
		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
			Section 1.1.  A (Very) Brief History of the Internet
			Section 1.2.  On the Internet and Internets
			Section 1.3.  The Domain Name System in a Nutshell
			Section 1.4.  The History of the Microsoft DNS Server
			Section 1.5.  Must I Use DNS?
		Chapter 2.  How Does DNS Work?
			Section 2.1.  The Domain Namespace
			Section 2.2.  The Internet Domain Namespace
			Section 2.3.  Delegation
			Section 2.4.  Name Servers and Zones
			Section 2.5.  Resolvers
			Section 2.6.  Resolution
			Section 2.7.  Caching
		Chapter 3.  Where Do I Start?
			Section 3.1.  Which Name Server?
			Section 3.2.  Choosing a Domain Name
		Chapter 4.  Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server
			Section 4.1.  Our Zone
			Section 4.2.  Installing the Microsoft DNS Server
			Section 4.3.  The DNS Console
			Section 4.4.  Setting Up DNS Data
			Section 4.5.  Running a Primary Master Name Server
			Section 4.6.  Running a Secondary Name Server
			Section 4.7.  Adding More Zones
			Section 4.8.  DNS Properties
			Section 4.9.  What Next?
		Chapter 5.  DNS and Electronic Mail
			Section 5.1.  MX Records
			Section 5.2.  Adding MX Records with the DNS Console
			Section 5.3.  What's a Mail Exchanger, Again?
			Section 5.4.  The MX Algorithm
			Section 5.5.  DNS and Exchange
		Chapter 6.  Configuring Hosts
			Section 6.1.  The Resolver
			Section 6.2.  Resolver Configuration
			Section 6.3.  Advanced Resolver Features
			Section 6.4.  Other Windows Resolvers
			Section 6.5.  Sample Resolver Configurations
		Chapter 7.  Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server
			Section 7.1.  What About Signals?
			Section 7.2.  Logging
			Section 7.3.  Updating Zone Data
			Section 7.4.  Zone Datafile Controls
			Section 7.5.  Aging and Scavenging
		Chapter 8.  Integrating with Active Directory
			Section 8.1.  Active Directory Domains
			Section 8.2.  Storing Zones in Active Directory
			Section 8.3.  DNS as a Service Location Broker
		Chapter 9.  Growing Your Domain
			Section 9.1.  How Many Name Servers?
			Section 9.2.  Adding More Name Servers
			Section 9.3.  Registering Name Servers
			Section 9.4.  Changing TTLs
			Section 9.5.  Planning for Disasters
			Section 9.6.  Coping with Disaster
		Chapter 10.  Parenting
			Section 10.1.  When to Become a Parent
			Section 10.2.  How Many Children?
			Section 10.3.  What to Name Your Children
			Section 10.4.  How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains
			Section 10.5.  Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains
			Section 10.6.  Good Parenting
			Section 10.7.  Managing the Transition to Subdomains
			Section 10.8.  The Life of a Parent
		Chapter 11.  Advanced Features and Security
			Section 11.1.  New Ways to Make Changes
			Section 11.2.  WINS Linkage
			Section 11.3.  Building Up a Large, Sitewide Cache with Forwarders
			Section 11.4.  Load Sharing Between Mirrored Servers
			Section 11.5.  The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing
			Section 11.6.  Securing Your Name Server
		Chapter 12.  nslookup and dig
			Section 12.1.  Is nslookup a Good Tool?
			Section 12.2.  Interactive Versus Noninteractive
			Section 12.3.  Option Settings
			Section 12.4.  Avoiding the Search List
			Section 12.5.  Common Tasks
			Section 12.6.  Less Common Tasks
			Section 12.7.  Troubleshooting nslookup Problems
			Section 12.8.  Best of the Net
			Section 12.9.  Using dig
		Chapter 13.  Managing DNS from the Command Line
			Section 13.1.  Installing the DNS Server
			Section 13.2.  Stopping and Starting the DNS Server Service
			Section 13.3.  Managing the DNS Server Configuration
			Section 13.4.  An Installation and Configuration Batch Script
			Section 13.5.  Other Command-Line Utilities
		Chapter 14.  Managing DNS Programmatically
			Section 14.1.  WMI and the DNS Provider
			Section 14.2.  WMI Scripting with VBScript and Perl
			Section 14.3.  Server Classes
			Section 14.4.  Zone Classes
			Section 14.5.  Resource Record Classes
		Chapter 15.  Troubleshooting DNS
			Section 15.1.  Is DNS Really Your Problem?
			Section 15.2.  Checking the Cache
			Section 15.3.  Using DNSLint
			Section 15.4.  Potential Problem List
			Section 15.5.  Interoperability Problems
			Section 15.6.  Problem Symptoms
		Chapter 16.  Miscellaneous
			Section 16.1.  Using CNAME Records
			Section 16.2.  Wildcards
			Section 16.3.  A Limitation of MX Records
			Section 16.4.  DNS and Internet Firewalls
			Section 16.5.  Dial-up Connections
		Appendix A.  DNS Message Format and Resource Records
			Section A.1.  Master File Format
			Section A.2.  DNS Messages
			Section A.3.  Resource Record Data
		Appendix B.  Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server
			Section B.1.  Step 1: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to File
			Section B.2.  Step 2: Stop the Microsoft DNS Server
			Section B.3.  Step 3: Change the Zone Datafile Naming Convention
			Section B.4.  Step 4: Copy the Files
			Section B.5.  Step 5: Get a New Root Name Server Cache File
			Section B.6.  Step 6: Restart the DNS Server
			Section B.7.  Step 7: Change the DNS Server Startup Method to Registry
		Appendix C.  Top-Level Domains
		Colophon
		Index

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