Automatic scavenging not working

[Nick Payne]

The option to scavenge stale records is checked on the Win2000 DNS server,
with the interval set to 7 days, but there are still records there from
machines that I know haven't been connected in weeks or months. If I
right-click on the server in DNS Manager and select the menu option to
scavenge stale records, then the records do get scavenged. However, I
thought this was supposed to happen automatically.

Nick

 

[Herb Martin]

The option to scavenge stale records is checked on the Win2000 DNS server,

with the interval set to 7 days, but there are still records there from
machines that I know haven't been connected in weeks or months. If I
right-click on the server in DNS Manager and select the menu option to
scavenge stale records, then the records do get scavenged. However, I
thought this was supposed to happen automatically.

Scavenging requires two separate sets of settings.

On the Server (Scavenging enabled and the internval set.)

On (each) zone (enabled and both refresh_interval and
no_refresh_interval set.)

Did you do the Zone part?

 

[Guest]

Do you have to set scavenging on all AD integrated zones of the same name on each DNS server or just one and the others will replicate and delete the records?