Aging and scavenging DNS records?

[AA]

Hi, we have a single 2003 AD Domain, we have 2 DC which
both have integrated AD DNS. We have yet to turn on Aging
and Scavenging for DNS and have been told we should do.
I am aware it deletes any stale records etc, but I'm
worried it will delete our static records like our
Exchange 5.5 server (yikes!). We had to manually add
this for users to connect to it, so we don't want this to
be deleted by Aging and Scavenging for DNS. Also our
Win2k and Win2k3 servers have static IP's, so will it
only be the dynamically updated IP's via DHCP that will
be effected?

Hope you can clear this up.

Andy

 

[Paul Bergson]

It shouldn't touch static (Manually created records). All records
dynamically created are recorded with a time stamp and when dhcp lease
updates the client should update the dns record. After (I think) 14 days
w/o update the record should be purged. You can manually set the record to
be scavenged but you have to check a "Delete this record when stale box" on
the Host(A) tab.