Network World

SRV Records and Active Directory, Part IV

Finally, a site-specific SRV record is entered into the DNS database for the domain in the site that previously had no coverage. From that point forward, any client in the DC-less site will query DNS ...

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
Ars Technica

Edumacate me: Windows KMS

So, I have a KMS host for my domain. When I set it up, it apparently did not create the SRV records, so I did it manually: To manually create a KMS SRV record in a Microsoft DNS server 1. On the DNS ...
Ars Technica

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses.
Network World

SRV Records and Active Directory, Part II

Earlier this month we discussed how special DNS resource records called SRV (service locator) records help Windows systems find domain controllers so they can authenticate to the domain. Interestingly ...