DNS on W2k3

Hi thompsg

If you are dealing with the MS way of life don't forget their TechNet section on the microsoft website. I run a Windows environment in our company and subscribed to the TechNet CD collection which contains basically the same information as is on the website.

The CDs are no good for playing at parties but it does provide alot of reading material and patches etc. I've killed at least three quarters of the Amazon Rainforest on DNS stuff I reckon.

As already mentioned those subfolders relate to Active Directory objects or protocols. These folders will be fairly important if you have chosen to integrate your DNS with Active Directory.

You also mentioned dynamic DNS - this can be secured to a degree by only permitting certain other DNS servers to update the DNS records I believe. This obviously relates only if you have more than one DNS server in the domain and you want to replicate the DNS records amongst the DNS servers. I think you need to right click on the DNS server icon within the MMC console for DNS and then select the Secure Dynamic updates option.

Also for clients to update/be updated they will need to be authenticated on the domain... Kereberos is used for authentication in a Windows Active Directory (AD) domain.

One advantage of using DNS integrated with Active Directory is the replication traffic for DNS and AD is bundled together so cutting down the amount of traffic. I have not administered a non windows network so can't compare the levels of traffic over DNS/NOS configurations may generate and am going off facts stated from several sources (not just Microsoft).

Cheers!