When you select Novell DNS/DHCP Services during NetWare 6 installation, the eDirectory schema is extended to enable the creation of DNS and DHCP objects, and the following objects are created:
Only one copy of these objects exists in an eDirectory tree. The DNS servers, DHCP servers, and DNS/DHCP Management Utility must have access to these objects.
The DNS/DHCP Group object is a standard eDirectory group object. The DNS and DHCP servers gain the rights to DNS and DHCP data within the tree through the Group object. When the DNS/DHCP Management Utility is used to create DNS and DHCP servers, the servers have the rights required to access data.
The DNS/DHCP Locator object contains global defaults, DHCP options, and lists of all DNS and DHCP servers, subnets, and zones in the tree. The DNS/DHCP Management Utility can display these objects without having to search the tree by using the Locator object. The Locator object is basically hidden by the DNS/DHCP Management Utility.
The RootSrvrInfo Zone is a Zone object, an eDirectory container object that contains resource record sets for the DNS root servers. The resource record sets contain Address records and Name Server records that provide pointers for DNS queries to the root servers. The RootSrvrInfo Zone object is the equivalent of the BIND db.root file.