Re: How to delete A reocrd in DNS

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:57:14 -0600

"Wensi Peng" <wensi_peng@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O8MWgEYAFHA.3824@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Deletion using DNSCmd is not safe. It has two options: RRType and RRData.
If
> RRData is missing for any reason, It will delete all records with the same
> RRType. This is a reason I do not select DNScmd. I have to clean a few
> thousands of workstations in DNS.

Well, that is good (???) to know. Thanks. 

-- 
Herb Martin
"Wensi Peng" <wensi_peng@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O8MWgEYAFHA.3824@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Deletion using DNSCmd is not safe. It has two options: RRType and RRData.
If
> RRData is missing for any reason, It will delete all records with the same
> RRType. This is a reason I do not select DNScmd. I have to clean a few
> thousands of  workstations in DNS.
>
> I plan to create a temporary OU and move all stale records to this OU
> instead of direct deletion.
> This is why I prefer to choose my own VBscript to do the task. I did
> manually delete a few dnsNodes in AD and the result is same like deletion
> from DNS console.
> I would like to have  experts here to verify my plan.
>
> Thanks,
> Wensi
> "Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
> news:uo5aXRSAFHA.2016@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > "Wensi Peng" <wensi_peng@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:#K0B$BQAFHA.1908@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Is the two ways below deleting a A record in DNS same?
> >
> > Probably many ways.
> >
> >> (1) delete from DNS console
> >
> > Normally.
> >
> >> (2) delete dnsNode in MiscrosoftDNS in AD by a VBscript.
> >
> > I wouldn't use that unless it were part of a larger script
> > designed to do something you can't otherwise do easily.
> >
> > DNSCmd and some tools you will find on the Internet can
> > also do it but they amount in one way or another to calling
> > an API to do it.
> >
> > -- 
> > Herb Martin
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Wensi
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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