Day: December 21, 2011

In Windows, the Active Directory domains tightly integrates with Domain Name Service (DNS) to an extent that an AD is worthless without DNS in it’s domain.   Domain Name Service (DNS) is a kind of phonebook/Database that maintains the list of mappings between computer names and IP addresses. Once an IP address is assigned by DHCP server, a computer automatically gets registered in DNS that is configured in its TCP-IP preferred primary/secondary DNS servers.   A DNS namespace consists of zones which defines scope i.e., which machines fall under that zone.  Thus a DNS zone is a Text/Database file (NTDS.Dit) […]