While computers and other devices identify each other on networks or
the Internet by using unique addresses made up of numbers, humans rely
on the Domain Name System (DNS), the distributed database that allows
us to identify machines by name. DNS does the work of translating
domain names into numerical IP addresses, routing mail to its proper
destination, and many other services, so that users require little or
no knowledge of the system. If you’re a network or system
administrator, however, configuring, implementing, and maintaining DNS
zones can be a formidable challenge. And now, with Windows Server 2003,
an understanding of the workings of DNS is even more critical.

DNS on Windows Server 20003 is a special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND,
newly updated to document the many changes to DNS, large and small,
found in Windows Server 2003. Veteran O’Reilly authors, Cricket Liu,
Matt Larson, and Robbie Allen explain the whole system in terms of the
new Windows Server 2003, from starting and stopping a DNS service to
establishing an organization’s namespace in the global hierarchy.

Besides covering general issues like installing, setting up, and maintaining the server, DNS on Windows Server 2003
tackles the many issues specific to the new Windows environment,
including the use of the dnscmd program to manage the Microsoft DNS
Server from the command line and development using the WMI DNS provider
to manage the name server programmatically. The book also documents new
features of the Microsoft DNS Server in Windows Server 2003, including
conditional forwarding and zone storage in Active Directory (AD)
application partitions.

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