Configuring DNS service
Zones
Terms
Resource Records
Advanced Server Properties
100
A server hosting a primary or secondary zone for a particular domain.
What is authoritative?
100
Holds the resource records for single or multiple domains
What is a zone?
100
This type of domain is registered to an individual or organization.
What is second level domain?
100
IPv4 host name
What is an 'A' record?
100
DNS server does not answer queries for which it is not authoritative
What is recursion?
200
The process of mapping an IP address to a host name.
What is name resolution?
200
The two ways zone data can be stored.
What is standard zone/file-backed zone or Active Directory?
200
Forwards queries based on the domain name
What is conditional forwarder?
200
Specifies a server configured as a mail server.
What is MX record?
200
Load balancing mechanism that shares resource loads
What is round robin?
300
This type of server hosts no zones.
What is caching-only server?
300
The zone that hosts a read/write copy of zone data.
What is primary zone?
300
Type of zone transfer used to minimize bandwidth usage.
What is incremental zone transfer?
300
Performs reverse function of an A record.
What is PTR record?
300
Method used by DNS to give ordering and preference to IP address on same network.
What is netmask ordering?
400
Name resolution process before DNS.
What are text files called HOSTS files?
400
These are the types of records contained within a stub zone.
What are Start of Authority record and Name Server record?
400
Use this to specify which users and groups can modify DNS zones and records.
What is discretionary access control list?
400
The default the minimum TTL value for a resource record.
What is 3,600 seconds (1 hour)?
400
Use this to prevent a zone with errors from being loaded,
What is Fail On Load If Bad Zone Data?
500
The 3 types of DNS servers.
What are primary, secondary, and caching-only?
500
Name 3 benefits of an Active Directory integrated zone.
What are 1. Fault tolerance 2. Security 3. Multimaster zones 4. Efficient replication 5. Maintain use of secondary zones
500
DNS server uses this to resolve queries for names that are not authoritative
What are root hints?
500
The resource records syntax.
What is Owner [TTL] Class Type RDATA?
500
This controls whether a fast transfer format is used during a zone transfer.
What is BIND secondaries?