Re: DNS Management tools for Large hosting environment

From: Medman (Medman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:48:10 -0800

Thanks Al.
May I'm a little dense; maybe I can't see what's in front of me. Maybe I
like things simple without having to script something (seeing as I have never
written a script before and feel that Microsoft should provide admin tools
without scripts!). Enough.

I am familiar with the DNScmd and have used it. Within the DNS command
options, nowhere do I see a command to SEARCH for a host record and REPLACE
a Host record in multiple domains in an AD/DNS folder. Nowhere do I see a
command option to SEARCH for a name server and REPLACE it with another Name
Server in multiple domains. All of the commands I see under the DNScmd appear
to apply to one zone or one server.

Regards.

Phil Wyatt

"Al Mulnick" wrote:

> 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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