On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, David W. McSpadden <dav...@imcu.com> wrote:
> Not so much over my head and a little foggy about the details.
If you're going to be doing anything serious with DNS (and it sounds
like you are), I highly recommend the book /DNS and BIND/ from
O'Reilly. While the content on BIND will be mostly irrelevant to you,
the stuff on theory, diagnostics, and tools will be invaluable.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100575
Or... there's also /DNS on Windows Server/, which is supposed to be
a more Microsoft-OS-oriented book. It shares several of the same
authors, so I expect it could well be a better match. I've just never
read it myself.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005627
Also, get yourself a copy of the ISC BIND utilities for Windows --
in particular, DIG. DIG is a *much* better tool for diagnosing DNS
issues than NSLOOKUP. For example, it can chase the delegation chain
for you:
dig +trace ANY imcu.com. @a.root-servers.net.
Sure beats querying servers one at a time by hand!
> These domains are test domains anyways ...
Ah. I am much relieved to hear that! I was really worried you
might have impaired your organization's email there. :)
-- Ben
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