DNS Interview Questions And Answers 1.What is DNS?

Domain Naming Services or Sys tem: - used for resolving host names to IPs and IPs to Host Names. 2.What is NBN S? NetBIOS Naming System, ex. - WINS, 2k access resources using DNS naming Conve ntions 3.What is a Forward Lookup? Resolving Host Names to IP Addresses 4.What i s Reverse Lookup? Its a file contains host names to IP mapping information. 5.Wha t is a Resource Record? It is a record provides the information about the resour ces available in the N/W infrastructure. 6.What are the diff. DNS Roles? Standar d 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? P rimary Zone: - zone which is saved as normal text file with filename (.dns) in D BS folder. Maintains a read, write copy of zone database Secondary Zone: - maint ains a read only copy of zone database on another DNS server. Provides fault tol erance and load balancing by acting as backup server to primary server. Stub zon e: - contains a copy of name server and SOA records used for reducing the DNS se arch orders. Provides fault tolerance and load balancing. 9.What does a zone con sist of & why do we require a zone? Zone consists of resource records and we req uire zone for representing sites. 10.What is Caching Only Server? When we instal l 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 actu al site. 11.What is forwarder? When one DNS server cant 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? Star t>Program>Admin tools> DNS >Zone properties. 14.What are the properties of DNS s erver? INTERFACES, FORWARDERS, ADVANCED, ROUTINGS, SECURITY, MONITORING, LOGGING , DEBUG LOGGING. 15.Properties of a Zone? General, SOA, NAMESERVER, WINS, Securi ty, and ZONE Transfer. 16.What is scavenging? Finding and deleting unwanted reco rds. 17.What are SRV records? SRV are the service records, there are 6 service r ecords. 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 informatio n Domain DNS Zone:Conations domains DNS specific information Forest DNS zone:Cont ains Forests Specific Information. 19.Where does a Host File Reside? c:\windows\s ystem32\drivers\etc. 20.What is SOA? Start of Authority: useful when a zone star ts. 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. typ es of Queries? Recursion, iteration 23.Tools for troubleshooting DNS? DNS Consol e, NSLOOKUP, DNSCMD, IPCONFIG, Logs, PM.

DNS Interview Questions and Answer 1. Secure services in your network require re verse name resolution to make it more difficult to launch successful attacks aga inst the services. To set this up, you configure a reverse lookup zone and proce ed 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 ar e they used for? 4. By default, if the name is not found in the cache or local h osts 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 cre ated a zone, naming it as you would name your AD domain. However, after the inst allation of the domain controller, you are unable to locate infrastructure SRV r ecords anywhere in the zone. What is the most likely cause of this failure? 7. W hich of the following conditions must be satisfied to configure dynamic DNS upda tes 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, thre e 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 dy namic updates, and it is critical to keep this zone up-to-date. Replication betw een domain controllers takes up a significant amount of bandwidth. You are looki ng 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 Interne t. What is the most likely reason for this? Answers. 1. PTR Records 2. DNS servers a used to resolve FQDN hostnames into IP addresses and vice versa 3. SOA records c ontain a TTL value, used by default in all resource records in the zone. SOA rec ords 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 u sed in zone transfers. 4. Performs a recursive search through the primary DNS se rver based on the network interface configuration 5. SRV records are used in loc ating hosts that provide certain network services. 6. The zone you created was n ot configured to allow dynamic updates. The local interface on the DNS server wa s not configured to allow dynamic updates.

7. The zone to be used for dynamic updates must be configured to allow dynamic u pdates. The DHCP server must support, and be configured to allow, dynamic update s 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 .