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Each QUIC endpoint selects connection IDs that route packets back to itself and identify the connection despite lower-layer address changes; externally correlatable information MUST NOT be encoded in those IDs.
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A JSON parser MUST accept every text that conforms to the JSON grammar and MAY accept non-JSON forms or extensions; it may also impose limits on size, nesting, numbers, and strings.
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A signer fixes an ordered set of covered component identifiers, MUST NOT change that order for the signature’s lifetime, and then creates the signature base from those components in order.
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HTTP’s core semantics do not change between protocol versions even though their wire expression can change; methods, status codes, and other generic extension points retain their semantics across versions.
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The Windows DNSSEC Key Master generates and manages cryptographic keys for a signed zone. Only one DNS server can be Key Master for a specific zone at a time, and it must be an authoritative primary capable of online signing.
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Windows DNS Server records DNS-over-HTTPS operational events in dedicated DNS Server event-log channels described by the page. Windows exposes separate DNS-over-HTTPS request, response, and dropped-request performance counters, and those counters reset when the DNS Server service restarts.
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Windows Server provides DNS Manager and PowerShell procedures to create and manage DNS zones. The page provides DNS Manager and PowerShell procedures to create primary, secondary, stub, and reverse zones and to configure zone transfers and delegation.
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Windows Server DNS supports forwarding and conditional forwarding for name resolution. Delegation, conditional forwarders, and intranet name resolution are distinct design elements in the documented forwarding model.
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Windows DNS Server supports primary, secondary, stub, and reverse lookup zones. Zone data can be file-backed or stored in Active Directory Domain Services; secondary zones are read-only copies.
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Windows Server exposes enhanced DNS logging, auditing, and analytic events for the DNS Server role. DNS analytical logging is separate from ordinary DNS Server event logging and can create high event volume.
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