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Lesson 1
Determining Name Resolution Requirements
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Important
If you plan to use your ISP’s DNS servers for any functions other than
client name
resolution, be sure that the DNS server implementation they are using is
compatible with the Win-
dows Server 2003 DNS servers you are using, and that they are able to
provide the services you
need.
You might also want to consider splitting up these functions by using
several DNS serv-
ers. For example, you can use your ISP’s DNS servers for client name
resolution even
if you are running your own DNS servers for other purposes. The main
advantage of
using your ISP’s servers is to conserve your network’s Internet bandwidth.
Remember
that the Internet name resolution requests that DNS servers receive from
client resolv-
ers are recursive queries, giving the first server responsibility for
sending iterative que-
ries to other DNS servers on the Internet to resolve the name. When the DNS
server
receiving the recursive queries is on your private network, all the
iterative queries the
server generates and their responses go through your Internet access router,
using your
bandwidth (see Figure 4-4). If your clients use a DNS server on your ISP’s
network
(which is nearly always a free service), only one query and one response go
through
your router. The ISP’s DNS servers generate all the iterative queries, and
these queries
travel directly to the Internet.
Requests/Replies
Request
Internet
Reply
Resolver
Internal
WAN Connection
DNS Server
Requests/Replies
Request
Reply
Internet
Resolver
WAN
ISP's DNS
Connection
Server
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Figure 4-4
Using the ISP’s DNS server saves Internet bandwidth
Using NetBIOS Names
If computers on your network are running versions of Microsoft Windows
earlier than
Windows 2000, they are using NetBIOS names and must have a means of
resolving
those names into IP addresses. When Microsoft originally incorporated
networking
capabilities into the Windows operating systems, it relied on NetBIOS names
to identify
computers and on the NetBEUI protocol for communications. NetBEUI uses these
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