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Module 3: Implement Windows Server DNS > Unit: Explore the DNS architecture
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- 1What is DNS?DNS is an industry standard name resolution service, that primarily resolves hostnames to IP addresses.
- 2If a DNS server can not resolve a query, what does it then do?- forward to another dns server
- use the root hints to resolve it - 3What do domain-joined windows clients use DNS for when the want to contact a domain controller?The use the DNS server to locate the domain controller.
- 4The naming structure that DNS uses is hierarchical, what does this mean?It means that a DNS namespace starts with a root domain and can have any number of subdomains
- 5What is the difference between public and private domain names?Private: you can decide how to call the namespace.
Public: you must register the domain name with ICANN or another registrar to register your domain name. - 6Where does a DNS server retrieves it's response from?First, from a local database.
Else, it forwards it to another DNS server.
The DNS server caches previously requested information from other DNS servers. - 7Which is a common Windows Server role that DNS is installed alongside?Active Directory Domain Services
- 8How do you make an DNS server responsible for resolving requests for a specific namespace?You create a zone on the DNS server that corresponds to the namespace
- 9What is the DNS resolver cache on a client?After a Windows client has received an answer from a DNS server, it stores this in the resolver cache.
- 10Which commands can you use to view the DNS resolver cache on a Windows client?- ipconfig /displaydns
- Get-DnsClientCache - 11Which commands can you use to clear the DNS resolver cache?- ipconfig /flushdns
- Clear-DnsClientCache - 12Besides DNS, what other name resolution methods can a Windows 10 client use?- Check it's DNS resolver cache
- Check the hosts file
- Broadcast a NetBIOS name query
- Check LMHOSTS file
- Use a NetBIOS name resolution service like WINS - 13Describe a hostname- User friendly name that is associated with a host's IP address and identifies it as as TCP/IP host.
- Max. 255 characters
- is an alias or an FQDN
- Applications use the structured FQDN in the internet. - 14Describe a NetBIOS name- nonhierarchical name
- Max 16 chars, of which the last char is used to identify a service.
- Represents a single computer or a group of computers
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