Overview of Advanced Topics

This is a Brief Overview on what will be Covered in this Section.

Round Robin and Netmask Ordering

• Round Robin is a Method of Load balancing that enables you to spread the network load between servers on your network
• Netmask Ordering – Enhance Round Robin by directing certain clients to a DNS server that’s on the same subnet as the incoming client.

IPv4 and IPv6 Root Hints

• Root Hints provides a list of 13 authoritative DNS Root servers, located out on the internet.
• Then we’ll take a look at how forwarders work with root hints
• Demonstrate how and why you may want to disable root hints

Configuring Recursion

• In this lecture we will explore the topic of Recursion.** ** What recursion is and why, you may want to enable or disable recursion.