DNS Server Operations Guide

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Domain Name System (DNS) is the name resolution protocol for TCP/IP networks, such as the Internet. A DNS server hosts the information that enables client computers to resolve memorable, alphanumeric DNS names to the IP addresses that computers use to communicate with each other.

This operations guide provides administering information for DNS in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system.

In this guide

Acknowledgments

Produced by: Microsoft Windows Server Division User Assistance

Writer: Jim Groves

Editor: Jim Becker