Domain Forward Lookup Zone

I checked dns to find that there are 2 forward lookup zones in the dns settings one with msdcs domain local and one with domain local.

Domain forward lookup zone. There are two primary zone types that can be set up on a dns server forward lookup zones and reverse lookup zones. Reverse lookup zones reverse dns zones perform the opposite task as forward lookup zones. You have to start the dns snap in.

In order to create a new forward lookup zone. In the world of dns forward lookup zones requests the ip address that corresponds to a fully qualified domain name fqdn. Forward lookup zone is used to resolve hostname to ip address it automatically gets installed and configured in domain controllers but we have to install dns and configure forward lookup zone for member servers.

6 input zone name. In conclusion forward lookup zones contains zones where forward lookup is performed. 7 set zone file name and click next button.

When a computer asks the ip address of a specific host name the forward lookup zone is checked and the desired result is returned. A forward lookup zone is a dns zone in which hostname to ip address relations are stored. Check a box forward lookup zone and click next button.

They return the fully qualified domain name fqdn of a given ip address. Each zone can be used as a management boundary for as an example a single domain or a domain and all of its child domains. Forward lookup zones forward lookup zones allow the dns server to resolve queries where the client sends a name to the dns server to request the ip address of the requested host.

In addition to that we also need to install and configure reverse dns lookup if we want ip address to name resolution to be working. As the description on the screen shot below set domain name or portion of domain name for this zone name. In the domain local zones there is a subfolder with msdcs with fqdns.