Book Description
DNS on Windows NT is a special edition of the classic DNS and BIND, which Microsoft recommends to Windows NT users and administrators. It discusses one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services. As the authors write in the preface, if you're using the Internet, you're already using DNS -- even if you don't know it. This book covers the DNS server in Windows NT 4.0, as updated with Service Pack 3. In addition to covering general issues, like installing, setting up, and maintaining the server, it covers many issues specific to the Windows environment: integration between DNS and WINS, converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS server, and registry settings. It pays special attention to security issues, system tuning, caching, and zone change notification. It also pays detailed attention to issues like troubleshooting and planning for growth.


Book Info
Covers the DNS sever in Windows NT 4.0 as updated with Service Pack 3. In addition to covering general issues, like installing, setting up, & maintaining the server, it covers many issues specific to the Windows environment: integration between DNS & WINS, converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS server & registry settings. Paper.

ANNOTATION

This Windows NT version of the author's classic publication DNS and BIND, Second Edition. Designed for system administrators and network managers, this publication focuses on the Windows NT DNS Server release Service Pack 3. Please be familiar with system administration and the Domain Name System, as DNS theory is only covered in two chapters.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book is a complete guide to the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) servers that run on Windows NT Server, version 4.0., and the Windows NT implementation of DNS. Since the version of the DNS Server shipped with NT Server 4.0 had quite a few bugs in it, the book concentrates on the version Microsoft released after Service Pack 3. The book also mentions other DNS servers that run on NT, especially ports of BIND, the popular UNIX implementation of the DNS specifications.

SYNOPSIS

DNS on Windows NT is a special edition of the classic DNS and BIND, which Microsoft recommends for Windows NT users and administrators. It discusses one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that&339;s responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services. As the authors write in the preface, if you're using the Internet, you're already using DNS -- even if you don't know it.

This book covers the DNS server in Windows NT 4.0, as updated with Service Pack 3. In addition to covering general issues, like installing, setting up, and maintaining the server, it covers many issues specific to the Windows environment: integration between DNS and WINS, converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS server, and registry settings. It pays special attention to security issues, system tuning, caching, and zone change notification. It also pays detailed attention to issues like troubleshooting and planning for growth.

Whether you're an administrator involved with DNS on daily basis, or a user who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you'll find that this book is essential reading.

Topics include:

What DNS does, how it works, and when you need to use it
How to find your own place in the Internet's name space
Setting up name servers
Using MX records to route mail
Configuring hosts to use DNS name servers
Subdividing domains (parenting)
Securing your name server: preventing unauthorized zone transfers
Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing
Troubleshooting: using nslookup, diagnosing common problems

AUTHOR DESCRIPTION

Cricket Liu matriculated at the University of California's Berkeley campus, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered UNIX, and cheap pizza. He went to work for Hewlett-Packard Company after graduation and stayed at HP for nine years.

Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly moved the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices. He was hostmaster@hp.com for over three years, and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization to found HP's Internet consulting program. Cricket currently runs his own DNS consulting and training company, Acme Byte & Wire, with his friend Matt Larson.

Cricket, his wife, Paige, and their son, Walt, live in Colorado with two Siberian Huskies, Annie and Dakota. On warm weekends, you'll probably find them on the flying trapeze.

Paul Albitz is a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard. Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and a Master of Science degree from Purdue University.

Paul worked on BIND for the HP-UX 7.0 and 8.0 releases. During this time Paul developed the tools used to run the hp.com domain. More recently he has been involved in networking HP's DesignJet plotter. Before joining HP, Paul was a system administrator in the CS Department of Purdue University. As system administrator, Paul ran versions of BIND before BIND's initial release with 4.3 BSD.

Paul and his wife Katherine live in San Diego, CA.

Matt Larson started Acme Byte & Wire, a company specializing in DNS consulting and training, with Cricket Liu in January 1997. Previously he worked for Hewlett-Packard,first as Cricket's successor as hp.com hostmaster, then as a consultant in HP's Professional Services Organization.