Object Creation Rules - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

appear under it. At the top is the task DNS Server Management . This is
followed by DNS/DHCP Scope Settings that allows you to specify the
location of the Locator object, and the administrative scope for the session. At
the following level is Zone Management, which provides the next level of
DNS entity management that is, managing zones handled by DNS Servers.
Finally Resource Record Management allows you to manage resource records
contained within a zone.
Each task is associated with a set of operations that appear in a drop-down
menu on the main panel when you click on the task..
For example, to create a new DNS zone, click DNS Management > Zone
Management. This launches the Zone Management window on the main panel
of the screen. Select Create Zone from the drop-down menu and click OK.
This opens the Create New Zone window where you can proceed with the task
of creating a new zone.

Object Creation Rules

There are certain rules that govern the creation and manipulation of objects in
the DNS/DHCP object hierarchy.
Subnet and Subnet Pool objects can be created under O, OU, L, or C objects.
Subnet Address Range and IP Address objects must be created beneath the
Subnet container object. However, because of the IP address of an IP Address
object, the subnet address range and IP Address objects can be contained
within a subnet address range's address block. The DNS Zone object, DNS
Server object, and DHCP Server object can be created in the context of an O,
OU, L, or C.
All DNS and DHCP objects are created as NDS objects and are subject to
NetWare Administrator convention.
Some objects, such as DHCP server, DNS server, DNS zone, Subnet, and
Subnet Pool, can be created in any context.
After a new DNS or DHCP object has been created, the DNS/DHCP
Management Utility grants the objects Read and Write rights to the Locator
object.
For fast and efficient searching, the distinguished names of newly created
zones, DNS servers, subnets, and DHCP servers are added to the
corresponding attribute of the Locator object. Renaming or deleting these
objects is automatically performed by NDS because of the built-in feature for
NDS distinguished names.
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