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Windows Server supports creating, modifying, and deleting DNS resource records through DNS Manager and PowerShell. The documented record data includes record type, owner name, host address, and other record-specific information.
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Microsoft documents geo-location DNS Policy in a primary-secondary DNS deployment. Secondary servers receive zone changes through AXFR and IXFR in the documented primary-secondary model.
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Windows DNS architecture distinguishes domain names, the domain namespace, resource records, and zones. A DNS zone is the hosted portion of a namespace that contains the records answered by an authoritative server.
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Windows DNS Server supports transferring the DNSSEC Key Master role between qualifying authoritative servers. If the current Key Master is offline, Microsoft describes seizing the role as a continuity action; file-backed zones cannot transfer the role.
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Windows Server extends DNS Policy support to Active Directory-integrated zones for split-brain deployments. The documented example selects a zone scope from the server interface on which a query arrives.
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Microsoft distinguishes recursive and iterative DNS queries in the Windows name-resolution process. The documented query process covers the path from a client query through cache, authoritative data, forwarding, or iterative resolution.
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For an IPv4 reverse lookup, the DNS client reverses the address octets and appends the in-addr.arpa suffix to form the query name. The example authoritative response returns a PTR record whose data is the fully qualified domain name associated with the queried address.
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Windows DNS Policy can distribute application traffic according to time of day. Microsoft states that multiple DNS policies are ordered and that the first matching policy is used.
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Anycast assigns the same IP address to multiple endpoints and uses routing to select a destination. Microsoft describes Anycast DNS as a way to scale a stateless service and add geographic routing and redundancy.
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AD DS stores information about network objects such as user accounts in a hierarchical directory. The directory service makes stored data available to authorized network users and administrators.
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