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LAB 8
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 Integrated Zone

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

Exercise 8.1 Installing DNS

Overview Domain Name System (DNS) is already installed on RWDC01.
However, we need a second DNS server for future exercises.
Therefore, during this exercise, you install a second DNS server on
Server01.
Mindset DNS is a naming service that is used by TCP/IP network and is an
essential service used by the Internet. For years, Windows servers have
included the DNS role.
Completion time 10 minutes
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11. When the installation is done, take a screen shot of the Add Roles and Features
Wizard by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab08_worksheet file
in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

For a typically large organization, how many DNS servers

should you install?
Question
For me personally I would install a minum of two. If one dns
1
server goes down you don’ have active directory, meaning
your network is down. If you have more than one server the
other will just pickup the load.

Exercise 8.2 Creating Primary and Secondary Zones

Overview During this exercise, you create primary and secondary zones on
RWDC01 and Server01.

Mindset 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. When you use primary and secondary zones, you can have only one
primary zone. The other sites have to be secondary zones. Therefore, you
will have one primary zone and two secondary zones.
Completion time 15 minutes

Creating a Standard Forward Lookup Primary Zone

What is the primary tool to manage DNS in Windows?

Question
2
The primary tool is dns manager.
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10. When the Completing the New Zone Wizard page displays, take a screen shot of
the New Zone wizard by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your
Lab08_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

Creating a Standard Reverse Lookup Primary Zone

8. When the Completing the New Zone Wizard page opens, take a screen shot of
the New Zone Wizard by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your
Lab08_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
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Exercise 8.3 Creating an Active Directory Integrated Zone

Overview During this exercise, you create an Active Directory Integrated
zone.

Mindset You decide that you want to improve the DNS system for your company
and you are thinking of switching to Active Directory-Integrated zones.
Active Directory-Integrated zones are fault tolerant, they offer better
security, and they have more efficient replication. With these features,
you don’t have to worry about primary and secondary zones because
each DNS server acts as a master.
Completion time 5 minutes

What is needed to perform secure dynamic updates?

Question
3
It creates an acl.

8. Take a screen shot of the New Zone Wizard by pressing Alt+Prt+Scr and then
paste it into your Lab08_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
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Exercise 8.4 Configuring Zone Delegation

Overview In this exercise, you delegate a subdomain called support under
fabrikam.com on a different DNS server.

Mindset Subdomains allow you to break up larger domains into smaller,

more manageable domains. Then by using delegation, you place the
subdomain on another DNS server.
Completion time 5 minutes

You discovered that one server is heavily utilized by many

request from the support domain. What can you do to break
up the workload of the server?
Question
4

12. When the wizard is complete, take a screen shot of the New Zone Wizard by
pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab08_worksheet file in the page
provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
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Exercise 8.5 Creating a Stub Zone

Overview In this exercise, you create a stub zone that points directly to
another DNS server.

Mindset A stub zone is a copy of a zone that contains only necessary resource
records—Start of Authority (SOA), Name Server (NS), and
Address/Host (A) record—in the master zone and acts as a pointer to the
authoritative name server.
Completion time 10 minutes

Which featuredoes Stub Zones bring to DNS: better

performance, redundancy, or both?
Question
5

16. On RWD01, take a screen shot of the DNS Manager window (with the
litware.com node selected) by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your
Lab08_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
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Configuring Forwarding and Conditional

Exercise 8.6 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.
In this exercise, you configure forwarding and create a conditional
forwarding zone.
Mindset By default, when a client contacts a DNS server and the DNS server
does not know the answer, it performs an iterative query to find the
answer (which means it first contacts the root domain and additional
DNS servers until it finds the authoritative DNS server for the zone).
However, DNS servers can be configured to be forwarded to another
DNS server or a conditional forwarder based on the domain name
queried.
Completion time 10 minutes

Configuring Forwarders

Your company uses an ISP for Internet connection. How

would you relay all DNS request through the ISP DNS
Question servers?
6
You would set the forward from your primary dns server to
the isp dns server. 192

Configuring Conditional Forwarders

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How do you forward queries to a specific DNS server for a

Question specified domain?
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You create conditional forwarders.

6. On RWDC01, with the lucernepublishing.com node selected, take a screen shot

of the DNS Manager console by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your
Lab08_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

Exercise 8.7 Configuring Zone Transfers

Overview By configuring zone transfers, you can control to which servers
DNS information is copied.

Mindset You need to configure zone transfers between multiple DNS

servers. What are the three types of zone transfer available?
Completion time 10 minutes
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Which type of transfer copies the entire zone, which is done

when a new DNS secondary service for an existing zone is
Question
added?
8
Full Transfer.

LAB REVIEW QUESTIONS

Completion 10 minutes
time

1. In Exercise 8.2, what must you create before creating the secondary zone?

You must create a primary forward lookup zone.

2. In Exercise 8.3, what is the prerequisite to have Active Directory-Integrated

zones?

Storing the zone in active directory only if the dns server is a writeable 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?

Create a forwarder. This forward all dns queries that hit this server to the server
on the intetnet or a different lan.

4. In Exercise 8.6, where did you configure forwarding?

Server properties under forwarding.

5. In Exercise 8.7, how did you configure zone transfers?

Going into the zone properties clicking the zone transfers tab and selecting edit.

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.

Mindset You need to configure a few scripts that will create DNS
zones.

Completion time 10 minutes

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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:

1. Create a primary zone called fabrikam.com.

a. dnscmd /zoneadd fabrikam.com /Dsprimary

2. Create a secondary zone called contoso.com. The primary server is located at

192.168.1.60.

a. dnscmd /zoneadd contoso.com /secondary 192.168.1.60

3. Create an Active Directory integrated zone called litware.com.

a. dnscmd /zoneadd litware.com /Dsprimary

4. Delete a secondary zone called lucernpublishing.com.

a. dnscmd /zonedelete lucernpublushing.com

5. Force a zone replication for the lucernpublishing.com zone.

a. dnscmd /zonerefresh lucernpublishing.com

End of lab. You can log off or start a different lab. If you want to restart this lab,
you’ll need to click the End Lab button in order for the lab to be reset.