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| Get to know advanced DNS zone properties in Windows 2000 Server |
| DNS Server in Windows 2000 provides several advanced DNS settings. To view them, open the |
| DNS console, right-click the DNS server, select Properties, and click the Advanced tab. Here's a |
| quick rundown of the settings you'll find: |
| Disable Recursion: This setting will disable recursion for all clients using this DNS server. |
| BIND Secondaries: This option turns off the fast zone transfers. Unless your BIND server runs |
| version 4.9.4 or earlier, deselect this check box to enable the fast zone transfer. |
| Fail On Load If Bad Zone Data: By default, the DNS server skips errors or wrong data in the zone |
| file. If you want the DNS server to fail when loading a zone with bad data, select this check box. |
| Enable Round Robin: This option enables the round robin rotation of multiple host (A) records |
| using the same IP address. |
| Enable Netmask Ordering: This setting enables or disables reordering of multiple host records |
| based on the local subnet priority if the host is a multihomed computer (i.e., a computer with two or |
| more network interfaces). |
| Secure Cache Against Pollution: This option enables or disables the method of adding resource |
| records to the cache. When enabled, DNS server prevents caching of resource records that weren't |
| answers for the originally issued query. |
| For even more detailed explanations of these settings, click the dialog box's question mark [?] |
| button, and then click one of these settings. |
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