DNS import

[Patrick Bemis]

Is there an easy way to import 400 records into an AD Integrated Zone?

Thanks,

Patrick

 

[Chriss3]

I think you can use WMI and script them in.

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer &
"\root\MicrosoftDNS")
Set objItem = objWMIService.Get("MicrosoftDNS_Zone")

I think you get better support in microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting
newsgroup.

 

[Patrick Bemis]

Thank you for the direction - I'll check it out.

 

[Matthew Kitchin]

I did it a dirty way. Change it to non-integrated. Stop DNS. Find the file.
Paste all the new records in. Start DNS, and switch back to AD integrated.
Don't know if that is supported, but it worked.

-Matthew

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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I did it a dirty way. Change it to non-integrated. Stop DNS. Find the
file. Paste all the new records in. Start DNS, and switch back to AD
integrated. Don't know if that is supported, but it worked.

-Matthew

If it works, and the zone are there, then it worked!


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[David Adner]

Curious, but do the zone files get updated when stopping the DNS service
(or periodically) or do you still need to manually refresh them? If you
do need to do it manually, I hope the guy did that first.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Curious, but do the zone files get updated when stopping the DNS
service (or periodically) or do you still need to manually refresh
them? If you
do need to do it manually, I hope the guy did that first.

Good question. Never thought of that. I usually just refresh it to make
sure. I would assume they're updated at least once you see the zones on the
screen.

Hate to see all those zones not get updated to the text files!


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[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

....or even if they're AD Integrated!

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[Matthew Kitchin]

This was a one time thing I did 2 years ago. I had to get a few thousand
records on a Linux machine that was broken. DNS wouldn't function on it, so
I couldn't do a zone transfer. The format of the files matched, so I grabbed
the meat of it and pasted it in. It worked for me.

-Matthew

 

[Patrick Bemis]

Guys - Thanks for all of the great answers/ideas.

Patrick

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Guys - Thanks for all of the great answers/ideas.

Patrick

No prob...


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