Windows Domain Name Service Basics

Windows DNS

 

What is a Zone and what is a Domain

 

Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones

 

Resource Record Types

 

Host(A) Record

Host records, or A records, simply map a hostname to an IP address. You generally
create host records for each machine in your network.
A sample A record looks like this in a zone file:

colossus A 192.168.0.10

Canonical Name (CNAME) Records

 

Mail Exchange (MX) Records

 

Nameserver (NS) Records

 

Start of Authority (SOA) Records

 

Pointer (PTR) Records

 

Service (SRV) Records

 

Primary and Secondary Name Servers

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