DNS Zones Archive
24 Jan 2012
Create Secondary Zone in Windows Server 2008 R2
What Is Secondary Zone? A secondary zone in DNS server is a read-only copy of the primary zone. Secondary zone can be created in both Forward Lookup Zone and Reverse Lookup Zone. There can be up to 255 secondary zones for a single primary zone. Unlike primary zones that are automatically created with the installation
24 Jan 2012
Create Primary DNS Zone in Windows Server 2008 R2
What are DNS Zones? In very simple words, DNS zones are the logical containers that contain the records of DNS oriented objects, for example client computers and servers. When administrators install and configure Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 a DNS server role automatically gets installed and a primary zone in Forward
24 Jan 2012
Allow DNS Zone Transfer in Windows Server 2008 R2
What Is a Zone Transfer? Zone Transfer is a process in DNS server that allows replication of its database with other DNS servers. Replication never takes place until the zones are configured to transfer their data to the requesting servers. When the primary DNS zone is created in a DNS server it can read and
19 Jan 2012
Installing DNS Server Role in Windows Server 2008 R2
What Is a DNS Server? A DNS server is a computer installed and configured by the administrators of a network to resolve host names to their IP addresses and vice versa. In large network setups where several computers are connected to each other they communicate using IP addresses of the computers. This means that every