Additional Resources for Deploying DNS

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

These resources contain additional information and tools related to this chapter.

Related Information

• "Designing a Resource Authorization Strategy" in Designing and Deploying Directory and Security Services of this kit for information about establishing security policies.

• "Designing the Active Directory Logical Structure" in Designing and Deploying Directory and Security Services of this kit for information about how to deploy DNS specifically for Active Directory.

• "Designing Security Policy" in Designing a Managed Environment of this kit for more information about security policies.

• "Designing an Authentication Strategy" in Designing and Deploying Directory and Security Services of this kit*.*

• "Deploying ISA Server" in this book for more information about perimeter networks.

• "Deploying DHCP" in this book.

• "Designing a Group Policy Infrastructure" in Designing a Managed Environment of this kit.

• The Networking Collection of the Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference (or see the Networking Collection on the Web at https://www.microsoft.com/reskit) for more information about the DNS Server service and DNS troubleshooting.

• The Windows Security Collection of the Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference (or see the Windows Security Collection on the Web at https://www.microsoft.com/reskit) for more information, about Active Directory installation and removal.

• RFC 1035: Domain Names — Implementation and Specification.

• DNS and BIND, 4th ed., by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, 2001, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates for more information about DNS.

• Windows 2000 TCP/IP Protocols and Services, by Thomas Lee and Joseph Davies, 2000, Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press for more information about the DNS wire protocol.

• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) link on the Web Resources page at https://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources for more information about Request for Comments (RFC) documents and IETF Internet-Drafts.

Related Tools

For information about installing and using the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools and Support Tools Help, see the file Sreadme.doc in the \Support\Tools folder of the Windows Server 2003 operating system CD.

• Dnscmd.exe

  You can use the Dnscmd.exe command-line tool to perform most of the tasks that you can perform from the DNS MMC snap-in.

• DNSLint

  DNSLint is a command-line tool that you can use to address some common DNS name resolution issues, such as lame delegation, DNS record verification, and verifying DNS records that are used for Active Directory replication.

• Netdiag.exe

  Netdiag.exe helps you to isolate networking and connectivity problems by performing a series of tests to determine the state of your network client and whether it is functional.

• Nslookup.exe

  You can use the Nslookup.exe command-line tool to submit DNS queries and display the results of the queries.

Related Help Topics

For best results in identifying Help topics by title, in Help and Support Center, under the Search box, click Set search options. Under Help Topics, select the Search in title only checkbox.

• "Migrating servers" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for information about upgrading your existing DNS servers or migrating third-party DNS servers.

• "Monitor Servers" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for more information about testing DNS server performance.

• "Initiate a zone transfer at a secondary server" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for more information about using zone transfer.

• "Dynamic update" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for information about how to configure dynamic updates.

• "Allow only secure dynamic updates" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for information about how to allow only secure dynamic updates.

• "Configuring DNS client settings" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003 for more information about how to install and configure DNS clients.