What the customer is wanting is a way to list all the servers running DNS in their AD environment. The nslookup command that ASB gave shows the 5 AD DNS servers but does not show the SQL Server that is running DNS (and they don't know why that server is running DNS anyways). They are trying to see if there is a way to find if there are any other servers running DNS on their network besides telnetting to port 53 on every server.
Thanks Webster From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: RE: Show all DNS Servers in AD Andrew- The way that option works is it create an NDNC aka Application Partition and the DCs hosting DNS enlist in it. It's possible that either a) DCs without DNS are enlisted in it for replication or b) vice versa (though this may be semi-protected against). It's also possible to create custom NDNCs for DNS with custom replication scopes. I'm guessing the OP probably has a relatively small/simple environment and this is all over thinking, but, in a large AD environment there's going to be a lot of variables to actually track down a proper list. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: Re: Show all DNS Servers in AD I would think that AD has some way of tracking all DNS servers in a forest, because it allows you to replicate a zone to all DNS servers in a forest or domain. One way to get at least a partial list of DNS servers would be via NSLOOKUP nslookup -type=ns yourlocaldomain.tld ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
