Configuring DNS server to create a DNS zone

First, let's be sure we understand the difference between a zone and a domain. A zone is merely a small part of a domain. For example, a domain techtarget.com may contain all of the data for techtarget.com, sales.techtarget.com and accounts.techtarget.com. But the zone techtarget.com contains only information for techtarget.com and references to the authoritative name servers for the subdomains.

In short, we can say that the domain name server stores information about part of the domain name space cal

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led a zone. The name server is authoritative for a particular zone. A single name server can be authoritative for many zones.

Going back to configuring the server, it's also possible to manually configure the text files that DNS creates (for Unix fans). But using the DNS console makes it much easier to see your DNS namespace configuration as well as to make modifications.

To create a new DNS zone:

About the author: Rahul Shah currently works at a software firm in India, where he is a systems administrator maintaining Windows servers. He has also worked for various software firms in testing and analytics, and also has experiences deploying client/server applications in different Windows configurations.

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