Have you ever noticed that ping and nslookup give different results when resolving a name? This happened to me many, many times and it caused me some frustration before I made the effort to understand why it was okay for the results to be different. Let's look at some of the reasons that nslookup results can be so different from ping results. There are really three important things to understand I think: How the Windows client resolver works (at least at a high level). What ping is intende... [More]

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Enabling DNS Secure Only Updates Prerequisites / Suggestions                 This article is aimed to help start us on the right track to enabling DNS security in our organization in a way to best support all our users while protecting our resources. As with any network change, it is aimed at impacting users and services as little as possible. This is best accomplished when other best practices have been followe... [More]