Re: DNS Management tools for Large hosting environment

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From: Al Mulnick (amulnick_No_SPAM_at_ncDOTrr.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:51:41 -0500

I'm a bit confused by the request. If you already have a way to change the
domains via search and replace, why are you looking for a different tool?

Nonetheless, have you looked at
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/dnscmd_syntax.asp

and at what scripts can do for you?

What's missing from those that you still want to be able to do?

Al

"Medman" <Medman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1E6CACBE-221F-4FF6-9A3F-1EDA110803A7@microsoft.com...
> OK. Let me be more specific. I host over 1500 TLD sites (various .com and
> .nets). I also resolve DNS for these sites. On the Internic root
> directories
> I have listed a primary and a secondary servername with associated IP
> addresses pointing to 2 servers on my site. One of those servers went
> down.
> It was also a domain controller.
>
> I want to do a number of things:
> 1. Change the DNS server name and IP address in the root directories to a
> new server on my site (this I will do last, by contacting my ISP).
> 2. In each of the 1500 sites in my DNS (AD integrated), I have a host
> record
> and a name server record of the server that went down.
> 3. What I need to do is change each of these host records and name server
> records to another server name and associated IP address.
>
> I do NOT want to go into each domain name DNS entry and change these
> manualy, thus my need for a global search and replace, which it appears,
> Microsoft does not have.
>
> Am I wrong? if so, do you have any suggestions for 3rd party software that
> will provide a global search and replace feature for these inegrated
> DNA/AD
> records?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Phil Wyatt
>
>
>
> "Al Mulnick" wrote:
>
>> What exactly are you talking about when you say "..this DC's host records
>> are registered in each of these sites, I needed to quickly do a search
>> and
>> replace and point these records to another DC..."? Are you saying you
>> have
>> a poorly written app?
>>
>> What am I missing about this? This doesn't sound like a DNS issue, but
>> more
>> of a design issue with your app and architecture. More information would
>> be
>> helpful in figuring out what happened though.
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
>> "Medman" <Medman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:74961880-A7D3-4725-BC28-CBE1B583B5AC@microsoft.com...
>> > It appears the Microsoft DNS group has dropped the ball in providing
>> > tools
>> > for large site hosting and deployment with Intergrated AD/DNS. Please
>> > tell
>> > me
>> > I am wrong.
>> >
>> > Environment: Windows 2003 Enterprise, Multiple web servers, integrated
>> > AD/DNS. We resolve our own DNS.
>> >
>> > I had a DC go down in an integrated AD/DNS environment hosting over
>> > 1500
>> > web
>> > sites. Because this DC's host records are registered in each of these
>> > sites,
>> > I needed to quickly do a search and replace and point these records to
>> > another DC so I could get up and running. I couldn't find anything in
>> > Microsoft's documentation. Does anyone have a solution?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Medman
>>
>>
>>

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