This Windows Server 2022 Tutorial covers how to create DNS Forward Lookup Zone in Windows Server 2022. Domain Name System is a name resolution service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources in the network. The DNS Server resolves computer names or other hostnames to IP addresses and IP addresses to computer names or other hostnames. A DNS zone is the specific portion of a DNS namespace hosted on a DNS server and it contains resource records. Forward lookup zones stored different resource records, but the most common record is the host record. A host record is used to resolve a hostname to an IP address.
Resource records in DNS forward lookup zones
- Host (A): A record used to resolve a name to an IPv4 address.
- Host (AAAA): AAA record used to resolve a name to an IPv6 address.
- Alias (CNAME): CNAME record used to resolve a name to another name.
- Service location (SRV): SRV record used by applications to identify the location of servers hosting that application. For example, AD DS uses SRV records to identify the location of domain controllers and related services.
- Mail exchanger (MX): MX record used to identify email servers for a domain.
- Text (TXT): TXT Record used to store arbitrary strings of information in the DNS.
- Start of authority (SOA): Start of authority Contains configuration information for the zone, including the name of the primary DNS server and how often secondary servers should be synchronized. There’s one SOA record per zone.
- Name server (NS): NS Identifies a DNS server for the domain. There’s one NS record for each DNS server that has a copy of the zone.
Prerequisite Required
- Install Domain Name System
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Demo environment
- Computer Name: server1
- Operating System: Windows Server 2022 Datacenter
- IP Address: 192.168.3.3
Create Domain Name System Forward Lookup Zone
1. Open the Server Manager dashboard click Tools and select DNS.
2. Right-click on DNS Server and click New Zone.
3. To continue, click Next.
4. In Zone type selection, select the Primary zone and click Next.
The primary zone creates a copy of a zone that can be updated directly on this server.
5. Select Forward Lookup Zone and click Next.
6. Enter the Forward Lookup Zone name and click Next.
Zone Name: test.com
7. In Zone File, Click Next.
Create a new file or use an existing file that you have copied from another DNS server. In this tutorial, we create a new file with the file name test.com.dns
8. Do not allow dynamic updates and Click Next.
9. To close this wizard and create the new zone, click Finish.
10. A new zone has been created under the Forward Lookup Zone.
