Types of DNS zones
You are now familiar with creating different types of DNS records, but that information is only going to enable you to create new records inside of an existing DNS zone. At present in our test lab, we have only one DNS zone available to us, contoso.local, which was created automatically when we built the contoso.local domain. As of right now, computers who are using one of my contoso.local domain controllers as their DNS server are only able to look up DNS records that I have plugged into my DNS zone.
With DNS Server provided by Windows Server 2022, you can certainly build out many different DNS zones, to increase name resolution capabilities in your network. There are plenty of different reasons why you might want to create additional DNS zones, and you should understand what types of zones are available to implement. Let’s take a minute and discuss the different types of zones available to us.
