What is DNS:
Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the industry-standard suite of protocols thatcomprise TCP/IP. Microsoft Windows Server 2003. DNS is implemented using twosoftware components: the DNS server and the DNS client (or resolver). Bothcomponents are run as background service applications.Network resources are identified by numeric IP addresses, but these IP addressesare difficult for network users to remember. The DNS database contains records thatmap user-friendly alphanumeric names for network resources to the IP address usedby those resources for communication. In this way, DNS acts as a mnemonic device,making network resources easier to remember for network users. The Windows Server 2003 DNS Server and Client services use the DNS protocol thatis included in the TCP/IP protocol suite. DNS is part of the application layer of the TCP/IP reference model.
DNS and WINS
The earlier method of name resolution for a Windows network was Windows InternetName Service (WINS). DNS is different than WINS in that DNS is a hierarchicalnamespace and WINS is a flat namespace. Down-level clients and applications thatrely on NetBIOS names continue to use WINS for name resolution. Since WindowsServer 2003 DNS is WINS-aware, a combination of both DNS and WINS can be usedin a mixed environment to achieve maximum efficiency in locating various networkservices and resources. For more information about using DNS in a mixedenvironment, see “How DNS Works" in this collection.
DNS and DHCP
For Windows Server 2003 DNS, the DHCP service provides default support toregister and update information for legacy DHCP clients in DNS zones. Legacyclients typically include other Microsoft TCP/IP client computers that were releasedprior to Windows 2000. The Windows Server 2003 DNS-DHCP integration enables aDHCP client that is unable to dynamically update DNS resource records directly tohave this information updated in DNS forward and reverse lookup zones by theDHCP server.
Types of DNS Records:
There are 7 types of DNS records which areA, CNAME, MX, NS, SOA, PTR, TXT.
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A
: This the IP address of a domain name or the IP address of the server, wherethe website for this domain name is hosted. For example, the
A
record of top-web-solutions.com is 207.44.147.74. This means, that each time I type in top-web-solutions.com in my browser, I am taken to a server, which as the207.44.147.74 IP address assigned. The
A
record can also be used forsubdomains and the subdomain’s
A
record can differ from the
A
record of thedomain just as each subdomain’s
A
record can differ from the other.
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CNAME
: This is short of cannonical name and is basically an alias. This record ismost widely used to point a domain name to an external service (such asblogger.com for example). An easy example of the
CNAME
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