I've never understood why people believe that /ageallrecords will cause static DNS entries to age off. Its simply doesn't happen.
When you edit a staticly entered DNS entry, there is a check box, which is OFF by default, to enable aging. If you check that, it will allow aging of the records. You'll note that any dynamically registered client has that box checked. You can easily test it with a bogus zone. Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] dns server scavenging processes > > Dear all, am looking to understand a bit better the processes > of windows dns > server > scavening processes; > > 1. am i right in my understanding that scavenging does need > to be explicitly > on a zone if it is enabled at a server level; > > read somewhere that behaviour varies according to > AD-integrated zones / > primary zones > > documentation throughout seems a little inconsistent on this one > > if then it is enabled at a server level how do you get a zone > managed by > that server to be 'un-enabled' for scavenging - > > 2. assuming the zone / server is enabled for scavenging have > read that if it > is enabled subsequent to a record being added / refreshed > then those records > will not in fact in fact be scavenged ?? > > have seen the /ageallrecords on dnscmd - as i read this ages > all the records > in a zone - including manually entered records ?? which of > course are not > able to refresh and therefore would ultimately be removed ? > > this would work if of course all records in a zone were from > dynamic update > capable clients but how do you handle safely the scenario > where you have > some records that were dynamically added (and have since > become stale) that > need to be removed without knocking out the manual records ?? > > TIA > > GT > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
