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Chapter 11. Advanced Features and Security

"What's the use of their having names," the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them?"

In this chapter, we'll cover some of the Microsoft DNS Server's more advanced features and suggest how they might come in handy in your DNS infrastructure. We cover some new ways to make changes to zone data, how DNS is linked with WINS and what to do about it, load balancing, using forwarders to set up a sitewide cache, and IPv6. We cover DNS security as well, though we save some of the hardcore firewall material for Chapter 16.



    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Background
    		Chapter 2. How Does DNS Work?
    		Chapter 3. Where Do I Start?
    		Chapter 4. Setting Up the Microsoft DNS Server
    		Chapter 5. DNS and Electronic Mail
    		Chapter 6. Configuring Hosts
    		Chapter 7. Maintaining the Microsoft DNS Server
    		Chapter 8. Integrating with Active Directory
    		Chapter 9. Growing Your Domain
    		Chapter 10. Parenting
    		Chapter 11. Advanced Features and Security
    		11.1 New Ways to Make Changes
    		11.2 WINS Linkage
    		11.3 Building Up a Large, Sitewide Cache with Forwarders
    		11.4 Load Sharing Between Mirrored Servers
    		11.5 The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing
    		11.6 Securing Your Name Server
    		Chapter 12. nslookup and dig
    		Chapter 13. Managing DNS from the Command Line
    		Chapter 14. Managing DNS Programmatically
    		Chapter 15. Troubleshooting DNS
    		Chapter 16. Miscellaneous
    		Appendix A. DNS Message Format and Resource Records
    		Appendix B. Converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server
    		Appendix C. Top-Level Domains
    		Colophon