Lab8
Configuring DNS Zones
This lab contains the following exercises and activities:
| Exercise 8.1 |
Installing DNS |
| Exercise 8.2 |
Creating Primary and Secondary Zones |
| Exercise 8.3 |
Creating an Active Directory IntegratedZone |
| Exercise 8.4 |
Configuring Zone Delegation |
| Exercise 8.5 |
Configuring a Stub Zone |
| Exercise 8.6 |
Configuring Forwarding and Conditional Forwarding Zones |
| Exercise 8.7 |
Configuring Zone Transfers |
| Lab Challenge |
Using the DNSCMD Command To Manage Zones |
| Exercise8.2 |
Creating Primary and Secondary Zones |
| Overview |
During this exercise, you create primary and secondary zones on RWDC01 and Server01. |
| Completion time |
15 minutes |
Mindset Question: For the Contoso Corporation, you are building a new network. Therefore, you need to install DNS to support your network. You have three primary sites. So how many primary zones and how many secondary zones would you create to support the primary site?
Creating a Standard Forward Lookup Primary Zone
| Question 1 |
What is the primary tool to manage DNS in Windows?
DNS Manager |
| Exercise8.3 |
Creating an Active Directory Integrated Zone |
| Overview |
During this exercise, you create an Active Directory Integrated zone. |
| Completion time |
5 minutes |
Mindset Question: You decide that you want to improve the DNS system for your company and you are thinking of switching to Active Directory-Integrated zones. What are the advantages of Active Directory-Integrated zones?
| Question2 |
What is needed to perform secure dynamic updates?
Active Directory with integrated zones. |
| Exercise8.4 |
Configuring Zone Delegation |
| Overview |
In this exercise, you delegate a subdomain called support under fabrikam.com on a different DNS server. |
| Completion time |
5 minutes |
Mindset Question: You are working for the Contoso Corporation. Why would you want to use zone delegation and conditional forwarding?
| Exercise8.5 |
Creating a Stub Zone |
| Overview |
In this exercise, you create a stub zone that points directly to another DNS server. |
| Completion time |
10 minutes |
Mindset Questions: What resource records are found in the stub zone?
15. Take a screen shot of the DNS Manager window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab08_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
[copy screen shot over this text]
| Exercise8.6 |
Configuring Forwarding and Conditional Forwarding Zones |
| Overview |
To improve performance, you can control which DNS servers requests are forwarded to when performing naming resolution by configuring forwarding and creating conditional forwarding zones. Therefore, during this exercise, you configure forwarding and create a conditional forwarding zone. |
| Completion time |
10 minutes |
Configuring Conditional Forwarders
| Question 3 |
How do you forward queries to a specific DNS server for a specified domain?
By using Forwarders |
| Exercise8.7 |
Configuring Zone Transfers |
| Overview |
By configuring zone transfers, you can control which servers DNS information is copied. |
| Completion time |
10 minutes |
Mindset Questions: You need to configure zone transfers between multiple DNS servers. What are the three types of zone transfer available?
Lab REview Questions
| Completion time |
10 minutes |
1. In Exercise 8.2, what must you create before creating the secondary zone?
A primary zone
2. In Exercise 8.3, what is the prerequisite to have Active Directory-Integrated zones?
Active Directory and a domain controller.
3. In Exercise 8.6, how do you configure all queries that a DNS server cannot directly resolve be forwarded to your ISP’s DNS server?
Enabling the IP address for the server in the forwarders tab.
4. In Exercise 8.6, where did you configure forwarding?
In the forwarders tab of the server properties in DNS manager
5. In Exercise 8.7, how did you configure zone transfers?
In the zone transfers tab in the properties of the server in DNS manager
| Lab Challenge |
Using the DNSCMD Command to Manage Zones |
| Overview |
To complete this challenge, you must demonstrate how to use the DNSCMD command to manage zones. |
| Completion time |
10 minutes |
You need to configure a few scripts that will create DNS zones. Therefore, what commands would you use to perform the following on RWDC01.contoso.com:
Create a primary zone called fabrikam.com
Create a secondary zone called contoso.com. The primary server is located at 192.168.1.60
Create an Active Directory integrated zone called litware.com
Delete a secondary zone called lucernpublishing.com.
Force a zone replication for the lucernpublishing.com zone.
