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Author:   Cricket Liu ,  Matt Larson ,  Robbie Allen
Publisher:   O'Reilly Media
Imprint:   O'Reilly Media
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.664kg
ISBN:  

9780596005627

ISBN 10:   0596005628
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   20 January 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Background; A (Very) Brief History of the Internet On the Internet and Internets; The Domain Name System, in a Nutshell The History of the Microsoft DNS Server; Must I Use DNS? 2. How Does DNS Work?; The Domain Namespace; The Internet Domain Namespace; Delegation; Name Servers and Zones; Resolvers Resolution; Caching; 3. Where Do I Start?; Which Name Server? Choosing a Domain Name; 4. Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server Our Zone; Installing the DNS Server; The DNS Console; Setting Up DNS Data; Running a Primary Master Name Server; Running a Secondary Name Server; Adding More Zones; DNS Properties What Next?; 5. DNS and Electronic Mail; MX Records; Adding MX Records with the DNS Console; What's a Mail Exchanger, Again? The MX Algorithm; DNS and Exchange; 6. Configuring Hosts The Resolver; Resolver Configuration; Advanced Resolver Features Other Windows Resolvers; Sample Resolver Configurations 7. Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server; What About Signals? Logging; Updating Zone Data; Zone Datafile Controls Aging and Scavenging; 8. Integrating with Active Directory Active Directory Domains; Storing Zones in Active Directory DNS as a Service Location Broker; 9. Growing Your Domain How Many Name Servers?; Adding More Name Servers; Registering Name Servers; Changing TTLs; Planning for Disasters; Coping with Disaster; 10. Parenting; When to Become a Parent; How Many Children?; What to Name Your Children; How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains; Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains; Good Parenting; Managing the Transition to Subdomains; The Life of a Parent; 11. Advanced Features and Security; New Ways to Make Changes; WINS Linkage; Building Up a Large, Sitewide Cache with Forwarders; Load Sharing Between Mirrored Servers; The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing; Securing Your Name Server; 12. nslookup and dig Is nslookup a Good Tool?; Interactive Versus Noninteractive Option Settings; Avoiding the Search List; Common Tasks Less Common Tasks; Troubleshooting nslookup Problems; Best of the Net; Using dig; 13. Managing DNS from the Command Line Installing the DNS Server; Stopping and Starting the DNS Server Service; Managing the DNS Server Configuration; An Installation and Configuration Batch Script; Other Command-Line Utilities 14. Managing DNS Programmatically; WMI and the DNS Provider WMI Scripting with VBScript and Perl; Server Classes; Zone Classes; Resource Record Classes; 15. Troubleshooting DNS Is DNS Really Your Problem?; Checking the Cache; Using DNSLint Potential Problem List; Interoperability Problems; Problem Symptoms; 16. Miscellaneous; Using CNAME Records; Wildcards A Limitation of MX Records; DNS and Internet Firewalls; Dial-up Connections; A. DNS Message Format and Resource Records; Master File Format; DNS Messages; Resource Record Data; B. Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server; C. Top-Level Domains Index

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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. 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. Robbie Allen is a Senior Systems Architect in the Advanced Services Technology Group at Cisco Systems. He was instrumental in the deployment and automation of Active Directory, DNS and DHCP at Cisco. Robbie enjoys working on the UNIX and Windows platforms, especially when Perl is installed. He is a firm believer that all system administrators should be proficient in at least one scripting language and most of his writings preach the benefits of automation. Robbie has a website at www .rallenhome.com.

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