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I would like to know the difference between the DNS Standard Forwarders and Root hint forwarders. they sound to me redundant.<br />
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The conditional forwarder makes sense to me...for instance , you are telling the client if you want to resolve this specific zone name I will send you (Forward) to this DNS (the one specified in conditional forwarders.<br />
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but Standard forwarders, seems the same to me as the Root Hints.....it is saying If you need to resolve a name space that I am not aware of I will send you to this DNS .... I guess Root Hint will take care of that without configuring standard forwarder.Please correct me if I am wrong.<br />
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I would like to know the difference between the DNS Standard Forwarders and Root hint forwarders. they sound to me redundant.

The conditional forwarder makes sense to me...for instance , you are telling the client if you want to resolve this specific zone name I will send you (Forward) to this DNS (the one specified in conditional forwarders.

but Standard forwarders, seems the same to me as the Root Hints.....it is saying If you need to resolve a name space that I am not aware of I will send you to this DNS .... I guess Root Hint will take care of that without configuring standard forwarder.Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks

Windows DNS forwarders

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).