Simple DNS Plus 5.2 build 115 is a Server Utility product from simpledns.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Thanks to DNS servers we surf the Internet using names such as "www.webattack.com" instead of impossible to remember IP addresses. A DNS servers translates these domain names into machine readable IP-addresses needed to locate the requested a web-server on the Internet. With Simple DNS Plus you can hosts your own domain name, or simply speed up Internet access by running your own DNS server. Simple DNS Plus is also a DHCP server, it comes with a DNS lookup tool, and many other features.
Simple DNS Plus Features:
* Simple yet Powerful
* What makes Simple DNS Plus "simple" is its easy to use user interface and automation features.
* All options and settings are available directly from the intuitive Windows user interface.
* It provides wizards for common tasks such as setting up new zones, importing data, making bulk updates, etc.
* You never need to mess with cryptic configuration files or registry settings.
* Novice users can have their DNS server up and running correctly and securely in no time.
* But make no mistake - Simple DNS Plus is a very capable and full-featured DNS server, and it has plenty of options for expert users to tweak it just the way they want.
* Authoritative and Recursive (resolver and cache) DNS server
* All the DNS server features and functionality you need to host DNS for domain names, assign domain name to computers and devices for easy access, create and delegate sub-domains, resolve other domain names on the Internet, speed up Internet access with centralized DNS caching, etc.
* High performance DNS server engine and user interface
* Great for hosting and managing anywhere from a few domains to +100,000 domains.
* The user interface is optimized to handle really large domain name portfolios (New in v. 5.0).
* Highly configurable
* Simple DNS Plus has options to configure all aspects of the DNS services, including many unique but important options not found in competing products such as the capability to limit recursion by IP address. Options are well organized and easy to manage in a central Options dialog available directly from first toolbar button in the main software window.
* Of course the program comes preconfigured with settings that are appropriate for most users.
* Direct support for dynamic IP clients
* Simple DNS Plus supports TSIG authenticated dynamic DNS updates.
* This update method is more efficient than the HTTP based and other proprietary update methods typically used because it happens directly via the DNS protocol.
* Several dynamic IP updater applications can be used with this.
* Setup tutorials are provided for DynSite and DirectUpdate.
* Simple DNS Plus can also function as a dynamic DNS service for more generic HTTP based update clients by using a web-server front-end. ASP.NET and classic ASP sample code for this is available here.
* Full support for IDNs (internationalized domain names) (New in v. 5.0)
* In Simple DNS Plus you can enter domain names with native characters directly (no punycode conversion needed), and have an option to display native character or punycoded domain names anywhere in the user interface, and quickly switch between these modes. More details...
* Full support for IPv6 (New in v. 5.0)
* Simple DNS Plus v. 5.0 has full support for IPv6 - the next Internet Protocol version.
* It has an option to control protocol preference (IPv4 / IPv6) on dual-stack computers, and it can even act as IPv6-to-IPv4 or IPv4-to-IPv6 forwarder. More details...
* Easy to integrate with other applications
* You can create DNS records or entire zone files from other applications or web-sites and prompt Simple DNS Plus to dynamically load and use this through command line options, a simple HTTP API, and our full .NET/COM programming API.
* The included help file contains a complete description of these features.
* 100% .NET 2.0 managed code (New in v. 5.0)
* This provides outstanding performance - also on 64 bit computers where Simple DNS Plus runs in native 64 bit mode.
* And it is very secure because common security issues such as buffer overruns simply cannot happen.
* Simplified DNS management
* Quick Zone Wizard / Zone Templates
* In one simple dialog, enter the domain name and the IP addresses of the web and mail servers, and click OK.
* That's all you need to setup a new zone. The IP addresses can even be pre-filled with default values.
* New in v. 5.0: The Quick Zone Wizard is template based and you easily create your own templates with exactly the DNS records etc. you need when setting up now domains. Optionally add input fields and VB.NET code. More details.
* Bulk Update Wizard
* Quickly and easily update thousands of zones in one quick step:
* - Find and replace an IP address.
* - Find and replace a host name (New in v. 5.0)
* - Update DNS record TTL values (New in v. 5.0)
* - Update zone Email servers (MX-records) (New in v. 5.0)
* - Update zone DNS servers (NS- and SOA-records)
* - Update SOA-record data fields (New in v. 5.0)
* - Promote secondary server to primary (convert all secondary zones to primary)
* Copy zone function
* Quickly setup a new zone using any existing zone as a template.
* Import Wizard
* This function makes it very simple to import zones from other DNS server implementations.
* This includes zone transfer, import zone file, and import set of zone files based on a boot file.
* Easy IP-to-Name Mapping dialog for reverse zones
* Forget "in-addr.arpa" and reversing IP address segments.
* With the "IP-to-Name Mapping", you simply type the corresponding host name next to each IP address represented by the reverse zone.
* An "auto scan" function can scan all forward zones for A-records and automatically create matching reverse records.
* "Zone Groups" for easy managements of large domain portfolios
* You can arrange zones in custom groups, or by primary/secondary status.
* Automatic creation of reverse DNS records
* Automatically create/update reverse DNS when an A-record (or AAAA-record) is added or modified.
* DNS record and zone comment fields
* Enter comments for individual DNS records and zones. For example client account numbers, or reminders about what certain records do, etc.
* For DNS records updated dynamically or via DHCP, the comment field will automatically contain a timestamp and other information about the update.
* Powerful DNS features
* Automate secondary DNS servers
* A secondary Simple DNS Plus server can be configured as a "super slave" server, meaning that all updates on the primary server are automatically transferred to the secondary. This includes creating and deleting zones.
* (On other DNS server, you have to create and delete zones on both primary and secondary servers).
* Everything is totally automated - when changes are made in the Record Editor, Simple DNS Plus immediately notifies secondary servers and a Zone Transfer is initiated.
* Simple DNS Plus can also be configured as a standard secondary DNS server, and will then automatically check for updates on the primary server.
* As everything else in Simple DNS Plus, Zone Transfers are implemented according to the DNS standards (RFCs), and so it is 100% compatible with other standard DNS servers. The license of this networking software is Free Trial Software, the price is $79.005zonelicens, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Simple DNS Plus, you can buy this networking software.