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• Draft-skwan-gss-tsig-04.txt (GSS Algorithm for TSIG (GSS-TSIG) )
For more information on these documents, go to http://www.ietf.org/
.
In addition to the listed RFCs and Drafts the implementation of the ATMA DNS
records is based on the “ATM Name System Specification Version 1.0”.
Additional reading:
• Microsoft DNS and Windows NT 4.0 White Paper
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/bin/nts/DNSWP.exe
)
• Designing the Active Directory Structure chapter in the Deployment
Planning Guide
• Active Directory papers
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/technologies/activedirectory/def
ault.asp
• ”DNS and BIND” (Cricket Liu) published by O'Reilly and Associates, 3
rd
Edition
ISBN: 1-56592-512-2
The Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed database and an associated
set of protocols that define:
• A mechanism for querying and updating the database
• A mechanism for replicating the information in the database among servers
• A schema of the database
History of DNS
DNS began in the early days of the Internet when the Internet was a small network
established by the Department of Defense for research purposes. The host names
of the computers in this network were managed through the use of a single HOSTS
file located on a centrally administered server. Each site that needed to resolve host
names on the network downloaded this file. As the number of hosts on the Internet
grew, the traffic generated by the update process increased, as well as the size of
the HOSTS file. The need for a new system, which would offer features such as
scalability, decentralized administration, support for various data types, became
more and more obvious.
The Domain Name System (DNS) introduced in 1984, became this new system.
With DNS, the host names reside in a database that can be distributed among
multiple servers, decreasing the load on any one server and providing the ability to
administer this naming system on a per-partition basis. DNS supports hierarchical
names and allows registration of various data types in addition to host name to IP
address mapping used in HOSTS files. By virtue of the DNS database being
distributed, its size is unlimited and performance does not degrade much when
adding more servers.
The original DNS was based on RFC 882 (Domain names: Concepts and facilities)
and RFC 883 (Domain Names–Implementation and Specification), which were
Windows 2000 White Paper
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