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>WhatisDNS?
TheDomainNameSystem(DNS)isahierarchicaldistributednamingsystemforcomputers.TheDomain
Name System distributes the responsibility of assigning domain names and mapping those names to IP
addresses by designating authoritative name servers for each domain. Authoritative name servers are
assigned to be responsible for their particular domains, and in turn can assign other authoritative name
serversfortheirsubdomains.
>WhatisthemainpurposeofaDNSserver?
DNSserversareusedtoresolveFQDNhostnamesintoIPaddressesandviceversa.
>Whatistheportnoofdns?
53.
>WhatisaForwardLookup?
ResolvingHostNamestoIPAddresses.
>WhatisReverseLookup?
Reverse DNS turns an IP address into a hostname. Example, it might turn 192.1.2.25 into
host.example.com.
>WhatisaResourceRecord?
ItisarecordprovidestheinformationabouttheresourcesavailableintheN/Winfrastructure.
>WhatisaZone?
A DNS zone is the contiguous portion of the DNS domain name space over which a DNS server has
authority.Azoneisaportionofanamespace.Azonecontainstheresourcerecordsforallofthenames
withintheparticularzone.ZonefilesareusedifDNSdataifnotintegratedwithActiveDirectory.Thezone
files contain the DNS database resource records that define the zone. If DNS and Active Directory are
integrated,thenDNSdataisstoredinActiveDirectory.
>WhatarethedifferenttypesofZonesinDNS?
TheDNSServerserviceprovidesforthreetypesofzones:
1.Primaryzone
2.Secondaryzone
3.Stubzone
4.ActiveDirectoryintegratedzone
>ExplainPrimaryzone?
Aprimaryzoneistheonlyzonetypethatcanbeeditedorupdatedbecausethedatainthezoneisthe
originalsourceofthedataforalldomainsinthezone.Updatesmadetotheprimaryzonearemadebythe
DNSserverthatisauthoritativeforthespecificprimaryzone.
>ExplainSecondaryzone?
A secondary zone is a readonly copy of the zone that was copied from the master server during zone
transfer.Infact,asecondaryzonecanonlybeupdatedthroughzonetransfer.
>ExplainStubzone?
StubzonesonlycontainthoseresourcerecordsnecessarytoidentifytheauthoritativeDNSserversforthe
masterzone.Stubzonesthereforecontainonlyacopyofazone,andareusedtoresolverecursiveand
iterativequeries.
>ExplainActiveDirectoryintegratedzone?
AnActiveDirectoryintegratedzoneisazonethatstoresitsdatainActiveDirectory.DNSzonefilesare
notneeded.Thistypeofzoneisanauthoritativeprimaryzone.AnActiveDirectoryintegratedzoneszone
data is replicated during the Active Directory replication process. Active Directoryintegrated zones also
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>Secureservicesinyournetworkrequirereversenameresolutiontomakeitmoredifficultto
launchsuccessfulattacksagainsttheservices.Tosetthisup,youconfigureareverselookup
zoneandproceedtoaddrecords.Whichrecordtypesdoyouneedtocreate?
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>SOArecordsmustbeincludedineveryzone.Whataretheyusedfor?
SOArecordscontainaTTLvalue,usedbydefaultinallresourcerecordsinthezone.SOArecordscontain
the email address of the person who is responsible for maintaining the zone. SOA records contain the
currentserialnumberofthezone,whichisusedinzonetransfers.
>Bydefault,ifthenameisnotfoundinthecacheorlocalhostsfile,whatisthefirststepthe
clienttakestoresolvetheFQDNnameintoanIPaddress?
PerformsarecursivesearchthroughtheprimaryDNSserverbasedonthenetworkinterfaceconfiguration.
>OnwhichportDNSserverworks?
DNS servers use port 53 by default. Incoming and outgoing packets should be allowed on port 53. Also
allowconnectionsonport921ifyouconfigurealightweightresolverserver.
TheDNScontrolutility,rndc,connectstotheDNSserverwithTCPport953bydefault.Ifyouarerunning
rndconthenameserver,connectionsonthisTCPportfromlocalhostshouldbeallowed.Ifyouarerunning
rndconadditionalsystems,allowconnectionstoport953(orwhateverportyouhavechosentoconfigure)
fromtheseadditionalsystems.
>WhatisroundrobinDNS?
Round robin DNS is usually used for balancing the load of geographically distributed Web servers. For
example,acompanyhasonedomainnameandthreeidenticalhomepagesresidingonthreeserverswith
threedifferentIPaddresses.WhenoneuseraccessesthehomepageitwillbesenttothefirstIPaddress.
TheseconduserwhoaccessesthehomepagewillbesenttothenextIPaddress,andthethirduserwillbe
senttothethirdIPaddress.Ineachcase,oncetheIPaddressisgivenout,itgoestotheendofthelist.
Thefourthuser,therefore,willbesenttothefirstIPaddress,andsoforth.
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