Discussions about dns servers

With dynamic DNS, which DNS servers are the registration requests sent to? When dynamic DNS is configured, I am wondering which DNS servers do the client computers attempt to register their name with. Do they only register with their configured DNS server or does the client query for NS records on its configured domain and contact... Started by DLux on Monday, August 31, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): If your DNS server are domain controllers and the zones are Active-Directory integrated/DNS, you just need to promote the server and enable the DNS service on it, and it will get an always clients should be able to dynamically....

Query DNS using specific DNS servers in .NET From a .NET application, I need to query a specific DNS server for resolving a domain name (the DNS server is not defined in the Windows network configuration). I know this is not possible using standard .NET Framework classes ( See this other question... Started by Philippe Leybaert on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Moreover a look at opendns.net and check if it fits... . DNS is really an easy protocol to understand and to implement. I think the best option is to study the DNS protocol (which is quite easy) and implement it yourself using .net udp sockets.

Getting DNS servers on Windows I'm using the DnsQueryConfig Win32 function to get the DNS servers used by Windows. This works fine for IPv4 addresses, but what if the DNS servers have IPv6 addresses? Started by ochedru on Monday, October 13, 2008, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Hopefully.... A "A" record. I don't know whether that's fixed in Vista" DNS record vs. Which version of Windows do you mean? At least in Windows XP, there's no support for querying DNS servers over IPv6 transport, so the question is moot.

I'm going to be moving servers (and hosting providers) soon. How to switch from one DNS server to the DNS server of the new hosting company? Hi, I'm going to be moving servers (and hosting providers) soon. Currently all the DNS admin is handled by thePlanet (our current hosting company). The server will be moved to rackspacecloud and I would like to use there DNS admin in order to close my... Started by benjisail on Friday, February 19, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): At any rate, you will need to set up new servers first, get their IP addresses and then either: a) point thePlanet DNS service to newIf you have DNS .... Should be able to use thePlanet DNS to point to your new servers.

Can i use Open DNS as well as my ISP's DNS in my Win 2008 DNS server forwarders? I'm just wondering if it's bad to put in Open DNS ips in my win 2008 dns server's forwarders as well as the DNS ips from my ISP? Is it bad to have lots of DNS forwarders? Should i just use one set? Started by Charlie Bear on Wednesday, June 03, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): I think OpenDNS is a flexible and robust DNS.... You should have at least two dns servers in your forwarder list though, to ensure you still get DNS content is forwarded to non-OpenDNS servers?? The request will succeed.

What algorithms do DNS servers use for faster lookups? DNS servers have to be fast in order to avoid latency. What algorithms do DNS Servers use to reduce latency? Are they any caching mechanisms that could be effectively used to improve speed? Started by Ram on Sunday, October 18, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): When a DNS server responds to a query, the answer comes back with a TTL (time will come out of.... In fact, that's exactly what happens. Any caching a client or server does will speed up the process. And querying other servers.

Is it normal for a DNS server to not respond until the name servers are switched on the whois record? I have someone telling me that DNS servers only start responding after the whois record is updated to point at their DNS servers. Is this normal behaviour? Or should a DNS server respond before the whois record is updated? Also, once the domain is active... Started by Darryl Hein on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): The root server.... ISP DNS server doesn't know, so. Is located (its IP). The relation of how fast DNS servers if they know where example.com. DNS Servers operate completely separate from the Whois server.

Reliable public DNS servers as ISP's replacement Our ISP's DNS servers are unreliable at times. I am looking for reliable, public DNS servers as replacement. I know OpenDNS but do not like the fact that it hijacks Google lookups and proxies its services. Preferably the DNS servers are free, reliable... Started by keithchau on Thursday, October 22, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): I'd recommend running your own DNS server on your LAN, using "root hints" to provide still return a ping.... This is not exact answer to your question, but I have setup my own dns server (BIND) on laptop, this is a good solution.

DNS servers cached and won't go away I'm having an odd problem that probably has a simple solution that I'm missing. I switched our wireless router to different DNS servers (google's public DNS in lieu of our ISPs). In the router settings, this involved unchecking the "automatic from ISP... Started by Garrett on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): You may want to switch to static DNS servers (repeat step 1 to 3 and put the DNS servers" Find TCP/IP and do "Properties.... Computer is retrieving your DNS servers from DHCP you have configured the router incorrectly.

Active Directory: is it good to have 127.0.0.1 as DNS server entry on 2 machines that are 2 DNS servers in a local net? This is a small local net with 10 computers in an office, they are running ms server 2003 active directory with 2 domain controllers. Each of the 2 DCs is also a DNS server and they syncronize. There are no more than these 2 DCs and 8 client machines ... Started by on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Way back when from my 2003 Server classes your. 127.0.0.1 will never change and will always point to the right ressource so you can just leave this as is . Changes, the DNS resolution may be broken.