"Cleaning Up" Active Directory Integrated DNS

[Brad Baker]

I am the sys admin for a small web hosting company. We are using windows
2000 active directory integrated DNS servers.

As we add new customers, we manually create new zones and DNS records for
each of our customers. Over time we have grown to at least a thousand zones.
Many of these zones are for former customers who are no longer with our
company. Is there a way to "clean up" DNS without going through each zone
one by one?

Perhaps a script or program that traverses the forward lookup zone, runs a
whois, then generates a report of all zones for which our servers are not
the authoritative servers. If not is there another way to handle this
situation?

Thanks
Brad

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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I am the sys admin for a small web hosting company. We are using
windows 2000 active directory integrated DNS servers.

As we add new customers, we manually create new zones and DNS records
for each of our customers. Over time we have grown to at least a
thousand zones. Many of these zones are for former customers who are
no longer with our company. Is there a way to "clean up" DNS without
going through each zone one by one?

Perhaps a script or program that traverses the forward lookup zone,
runs a whois, then generates a report of all zones for which our
servers are not the authoritative servers. If not is there another
way to handle this situation?

Thanks
Brad

I'm not sure what you want to clean up, whether you want to delete them or
change records, but you can try the DNSCMD utility. It will become available
once you've installed the WIndows Support Tools found on the Windows 2000
CDROM. It's command line based, which can be scripted or batched.

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