Re: Where is the Resource Record kept?

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From: Jim in Arizona (tiltowait_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:37:07 -0700

I have never heard of 'dig'. Although I've used nslookup on occasion, I am
not familiar with it enogh to query it for specifics and direct the output
to a file. I'll have to work on that.

Thanks William.

Jim

"William Stacey [MVP]" <staceywREMOVE@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:u8MT0PyiEHA.3608@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> You can also just use something like dig or nslookup and do an axfr query
> to
> get all the data and strip out all but the A records
>
> C:\>dig test.com axfr > test.com.zone.txt
>
> notepad test.com.zone.txt
>
> etc..
>
> --
> William Stacey, MVP
>
> "Jim in Arizona" <tiltowait@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:edFW4YjiEHA.712@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Perhaps I should ask the right question:
>>
>> What I wanted to do is print out the resource list. Our DNS is AD
> Integrated
>> and I don't plan on de-integrating it. All I need to do is print out the
>> list of A records from our single zone. I can't do this within the DNS
>> MMC
>> snap-in. Any Ideas, without becoming a carpenter? :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> "Deji Akomolafe" <noemail@akomolafe.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23wycp3iiEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> > It will not be there IF the zone is AD-integrated. Convert the zone to
>> > Standard and update the server data file, and you should see it.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
>> > Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
>> > www.readymaids.com - we know IT
>> > www.akomolafe.com
>> > Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
>> > Yesterday? -anon
>> > "Jim in Arizona" <tiltowait@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:OnaHxfiiEHA.2908@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> >> Where is the DNS resource record kept on a windows 2000 server? It
> should
>> > be
>> >> just a plain ol' text file right? I looked in
>> >> %systemroot%/system32/dns
>> > but
>> >> I didn't see it there.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>

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