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Are you curious how Windows 7 works within workgroups, homegroups, and domains? In this excerpt from William R. Stanek's Windows® 7 Administrator's Pocket Consultant you'll learn about account ...
Specify
the domain name you want to look up, the record type
you're interested in (unless it's
A, the default), and the domain name or IP address of the name server
you want to query (unless it's ...
If you want a name server to forward
queries for certain domain names to another name server, use a zone
statement of type forward to tell a BIND 8.2 or
later or 9.1.0 or later name...
If you want a name server to forward
queries it can't answer locally to another name
server, use
the forwarders options
substatement to configure a forwarder for the name serve...
If you
want to move a host from one address to another, at least one
TTL before the move, reduce the TTL on the host's A
record and PTR record to a low number, like 60 seconds. For example,...
You want
the domain name of your zone to point to your web server.
Add an A record to the domain name of
your zone pointing to the IP address of your web server:
foo.example. IN A 10.0.0....
If you
want to configure a name server to be a slave for a zone, add the appropriate
zone statement to the name
server's named.conf file.
The zone
statement specifies the domain nam...
If you
want to configure a name server to be the primary master for a zone, add the appropriate
zone statement to the name
server's named.conf file.
The zone
statement specifies the domain name...
If you need to
create a named.conf file for a name server, use your favorite editor to create the
named.conf file, usually in the
/etc directory. Nearly every name
server's named.conf file
cont...
If you want to transfer your domain
name to another registrar, possibly because they're
cheaper or because they offer better service, or to consolidate all
of yo...