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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Query and Retrieve DNS Information?

February 26, 2009 Feb 26, 2009 02/26/09

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I know I can use the DNS WMI provider and query a DNS server. But what if I am not using a Microsoft DNS server? Or what if I do not have admin rights on the DNS server? What happens then? I really do not want to resort to parsing the output from NSLookup. Can you hook me up?- BP(image) (image) Hi BP, You know, "...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Create a New DNS Zone?

February 25, 2009 Feb 25, 2009 02/25/09

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to create several new zones in DNS, and I do not want to waste time working through the GUI wizard. I mean, real network administrators do not use wizards. In the old days, this was easy: I’d just edit a .dns file and I’d be done. But with Active Directory integrated stuff, I cannot figure out where the...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Check Host Name Records?

February 23, 2009 Feb 23, 2009 02/23/09

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We are having name resolution issues at work. It is so bad that when my wife calls me, the guy in the other cube gets the call. This manifests itself in concrete ways as well. Opening Office Outlook seems to take forever; going to internal Web sites takes a long time; trying to connect to an Office SharePoint site...