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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~