Managing a Network Environment – 8/18/2008

Monday night’s class was all about DNS.  What it is, how to install it (heh) and what it’s used for. 

In order to fully understand it, we followed the lab in chapter nine and made our child domain controllers DNS servers.  Afterwards, we messed around with various zones and then ran into replication issues as our DCs weren’t set to the same time (argh!).  LIfe was good.  For chapter ten, we played with concepts such as zone delegation (storing a subdomain on an entirely different server) and stub zones (a zone holding only SOA and NS records, designed to easily find an authoratative zone).

Homework:

• Chapter Nine: Review Questions
• Chapter Ten: Review Questions