Dns on Windows 2000 - Brossura

Larson, Matt; Liu, Cricket; Albitz, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0596002300 ISBN 13: 9780596002305

Casa editrice: Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2001

Riassunto

DNS on Windows 2000 is a special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND. The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services. As the preface says, if you're using the Internet, you're already using DNS--even if you don't know it.Besides covering general issues like installing, setting up, and maintaining the server, DNS on Windows 2000 tackles those specific to the Windows environment: integration between DNS and Active Directory, conversion from BIND to the Microsoft DNS server, and registry settings. You'll also acquire a grounding in:

• Security issues
• System tuning
• Caching
• Zone change notification
• Troubleshooting
• Planning for growth

If you're a Windows administrator, DNS on Windows 2000 is the operations manual you need for working with DNS every day; if you're a Windows user who simply wants to take the mystery out of the Internet, this book is a readable introduction to the Internet's architecture and inner workings.Topics include:

• What DNS does, how it works, and when you need to use it
• How to find your own place in the Internet's namespace
• Setting up name servers
• Integrating Active Directory with DNS
• Dynamic updates, storing zone information in Active Directory, and incremental zone transfers
• Using MX records to route mail
• Configuring hosts to use name servers
• Subdividing domains (parenting)
• Securing your name server: preventing unauthorized zone transfers
• Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing
• Troubleshooting: using nslookup, diagnosing common problems

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

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.

Contenuti:

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;

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oreilly & Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0596002300
• ISBN 13: 9780596002305
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 334