what is the purpose of the global Names Zone in windows Server 2008 DNS Servers?

It a special DNS zone used to resolve NetBIOS, flat names using the DNS service. Here is a high level overview: Understanding GlobalNames Zone in Windows 2008 http://www.anitkb.com/2010/03/understanding-globalnames-zone-in.html Visit: anITKB.com, an IT Knowledge Base.

Hi, The GlobalNames Zone is a new feature that provides single-label name resolution for large enterprise networks that do not deploy WINS and where using DNS name suffixes to provide single-label name resolution is not practical. Here is a document: http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/0/e2090852-3b7f-40a3-9883-07a427af1560/dns-globalnames-zone-deployment.doc Hope it helps. Regards, Bruce