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The previous example discusses several different DNS servers, each running with a particular configuration. This is important to point out, because a particular configuration should be matched to the need at hand. Following are common DNS server configurations:
- A caching-only name server, such as a configured server that is not authoritative for any zone, recursively [...]
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About DNS Server Configurations
July 13th, 2008 
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About the Domain Name System
July 7th, 2008 adminOriginally, computers performed name-to-address mapping via a simple text file, the hosts file, which contained a list of every machine that needed to be referenced by name.
Using the hosts file, a computer could resolve a lookup. Every computer had a copy of the hosts file. If an IP address changed for any machine in that [...]
