Re: Can I delete the '_msdcs.domain' zone?

TheMechanic wrote:
> Good Morning,
> I have a 4010 DNS error in the event viewer(I have another post about
> this). It can not load the RR records in the previous mentioned
> zone(I believe they are the CNAME records of all of the servers and
> the domain). After digging around I have found some references that
> I may have a corrupted DNS zone. Can I delete that very important
> zone and then immediately have the 6 servers reregister the records
> in that zone (IPCONFIG flushDNS and registerDNS; And then net
> stop/start netlogon)? It is kind of scarey! Is there a way to back
> up that zone so I can recreate it if there is a problem? Is there a
> safe way of doing this? Thanks for any help.

Change the zone to standard priomary, which removes the zone from Active
Directory. Set the zone to allow dynamic updates and run those commands.

Before you put the zone back into AD, use ADU&C in Advanced view, to open
the System\MicrosoftDNS container, and delete any objects with that name.
Connect to all DCs to verify these objects are not present.


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