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DNS Interview Questions and  Answer

1. Secure services in your network require reverse name resolution to make it more difficult
to launch successful attacks against the services. To set this up, you configure a reverse
lookup zone and proceed to add records. Which record types do you need to create?
2. What is the main purpose of a DNS server?
3. SOA records must be included in every zone. What are they used for?
4. By default, if the name is not found in the cache or local hosts file, what is the first step
the client takes to resolve the FQDN name into an IP address?
5. What is the main purpose of SRV records?
6. Before installing your first domain controller in the network, you installed a DNS server
and created a zone, naming it as you would name your AD domain. However, after the
 installation of the domain controller, you are unable to locate infrastructure SRV records
anywhere in the zone. What is the most likely cause of this failure?
7. Which of the following conditions must be satisfied to configure dynamic DNS updates
for legacy clients?
8. At some point during the name resolution process, the requesting party received
authoritative reply. Which further actions are likely to be taken after this reply?
9. Your company uses ten domain controllers, three of which are also used as DNS servers.
You have one companywide AD-integrated zone, which contains several thousand
resource records. This zone also allows dynamic updates, and it is critical to keep this
zone up-to-date.
Replication between domain controllers takes up a significant amount of bandwidth. You
are looking to cut bandwidth usage for the purpose of replication. What should you do?
10. You are administering a network connected to the Internet. Your users complain that
everything is slow. Preliminary research of the problem indicates that it takes a
considerable amount of time to resolve names of resources on the Internet. What is the
most likely reason for this?

Answers………………….

1. PTR Records
2. DNS servers are used to resolve FQDN hostnames into IP addresses and vice versa
3. SOA records contain a TTL value, used by default in all resource records in the zone.
SOA records contain the e-mail address of the person who is responsible for maintaining
the zone. SOA records contain the current serial number of the zone, which is used in
zone transfers.
4. Performs a recursive search through the primary DNS server based on the network
interface configuration
5. SRV records are used in locating hosts that provide certain network services.
6. The zone you created was not configured to allow dynamic updates. The local interface
on the DNS server was not configured to allow dynamic updates.
7. The zone to be used for dynamic updates must be configured to allow dynamic updates.
The DHCP server must support, and be configured to allow, dynamic updates for legacy
clients.
8. After receiving the authoritative reply, the resolution process is effectively over.
9. Change the replication scope to all DNS servers in the domain.
10. DNS servers are not caching replies.. Local client computers are not caching replies…
The cache.dns file may have been corrupted on the server.

DNS Interview Questions And Answers

1.What is DNS?
Domain Naming Services or System: - used for resolving host names to IPs and IPs to Host
Names.
2.What is NBNS?
NetBIOS Naming System, ex. - WINS, 2k access resources using DNS naming Conventions

3.What is a Forward Lookup?

Resolving Host Names to IP Addresses

4.What is Reverse Lookup?

It’s a file contains host names to IP mapping information.

5.What is a Resource Record?

It is a record provides the information about the resources available in the N/W infrastructure.

6.What are the diff. DNS Roles?

Standard Primary, Standard Secondary, & AD Integrated.

7.What is a Zone?
Zone is a sub tree of DNS database.

8.What is primary, Secondary, stub & AD Integrated Zone?

Primary Zone: - zone which is saved as normal text file with filename (.dns) in DBS folder.
Maintains a read, write copy of zone database
Secondary Zone: - maintains a read only copy of zone database on another DNS server. Provides
fault tolerance and load balancing by acting as backup server to primary server.
Stub zone: - contains a copy of name server and SOA records used for reducing the DNS search
orders. Provides fault tolerance and load balancing.

9.What does a zone consist of & why do we require a zone?

Zone consists of resource records and we require zone for representing sites.

10.What is Caching Only Server?

When we install 2000 & 2003 server it is configured as caching only server where it maintains
the frequently accessed sites information and again when we access the same site for next time it
is obtain from cached information instead of going to the actual site.

11.What is forwarder?
When one DNS server can’t receive the query it can be forwarded to another DNS once
configured as forwarder.

12.What is secondary DNS Server?

It is backup for primary DNS where it maintains a read only copy of DNS database.

13.How to enable Dynamic updates in DNS?

Start>Program>Admin tools> DNS >Zone properties.

14.What are the properties of DNS server?

INTERFACES, FORWARDERS, ADVANCED, ROUTINGS, SECURITY, MONITORING,
LOGGING, DEBUG LOGGING.

15.Properties of a Zone?
General, SOA, NAMESERVER, WINS, Security, and ZONE Transfer.

16.What is scavenging?
Finding and deleting unwanted records.

17.What are SRV records?

SRV are the service records, there are 6 service records. They are useful for locating the services.

18.What are the types of SRV records?

MSDCS:Contains DCs information
TCP:Contains Global Catalog, Kerberos & LDAP information.
UDP:Contains Sites information
Sites:Contains Sites information
Domain DNS Zone:Conations domain’s DNS specific information
Forest DNS zone:Contains Forest’s Specific Information.

19.Where does a Host File Reside?

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.

20.What is SOA?
Start of Authority: useful when a zone starts. Provides the zone startup information

21.What is a query?
A request made by the DNS client to provide the name server information.

22.What are the diff. types of Queries?

Recursion, iteration

23.Tools for troubleshooting DNS?

DNS Console, NSLOOKUP, DNSCMD, IPCONFIG, Logs, PM.

Describe the differences between the 3 types.

DNS stands for Distributed Name System. A DNS server resolves a name to an IP address, as stated in an
earlier answer, but it can also point to multiple IP addresses for load balancing, or for backup servers if
one or more is offline or not accepting connections. Individual organizations may have their own DNS
servers for their local Intranet. Some sites have their own DNS server to switch between subdomains
within them. For example, a site such as Blogspot can have subdomains come and go quite frequently.
Rather than force every DNS server to update their own databases whenever someone creates a new
blog, Blogspot could maintain their own DNS server to resolve names within the blogspot.com domain,
e.g., to distinguish between myblog.blogspot.com and yourblog.blogspot.com ... their DNS server would
be queried once blogspot.com is resolved, and it would be responsible for resolving myblog vs.
yourblog. , such as the Internet. The following are the three main components of DNS: •
Domain name space and associated resource records (RRs) A distributed database of name-related
information.

DNS Name Servers

Servers that hold the domain name space and RRs, and that answer queries from DNS clients.

DNS Resolvers
The facility within a DNS client that contacts DNS name servers and issues name queries to obtain
resource record information.

DNS Zones
A DNS server that has complete information for part of the DNS name space is said to be the authority
for that part of the name space. This authoritative information is organized into units called zones ,
which are the main units of replication in DNS. A zone contains one or more RRs for one or more related
DNS domains. The following are the three DNS zone types implemented in Windows 2000:

Standard Primary
Holds the master copy of a zone and can replicate it to secondary zones. All changes to a zone are made
on the standard primary.

Standard Secondary
Contains a read-only copy of zone information that can provide increased performance and resilience.
Information in a primary zone is replicated to the secondary by use of the zone transfer mechanism.

Active Directory-integrated
A Microsoft proprietary zone type, where the zone information is held in the Windows 2000 Active
Directory (AD) and replicated using AD replication.
DNS record types
describe the most important ones. DNS Resource Record