David,
I am sure it will work but my DNS as over 45000+ objects and it is running on a production network. It scares me a little to do that.
Y
From: Chianese, David P.
Sent: Fri 26/03/2004 2:47 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone ever convert dnsRecord attribute?
As Al mentioned, why not convert the zone to Std. Primary and take a copy of the zone files that are written to disk. Then revert it back to ADI. I have done this before without incident to supply our BIND unix servers copies (or pieces) of our zone files. I have done this in the past for stale PTR records as well.
Regards,
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of AD
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 2:30 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone ever convert dnsRecord attribute?I am looking for duplicate registrations in the reverse lookup zone. I am hoping to export everything to txt (40000+ objects) file so I can parse using excel. I actually found the article you mention but the I have to install the WMI provider on the DC. I am hoping to avoid this if I can. Tha't why I am hoping to use LDAP with some sort of OctetString converter.Y
From: Mulnick, Al
Sent: Fri 26/03/2004 1:04 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone ever convert dnsRecord attribute?You mean like a zone transfer?DNS.CMD could be useful, scripting could be useful such as this one http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/network/scnet163.mspx (note the requirements).DNSLINT might have some value for you as well.Heck, Nslookup in a loop might be useful but you'd have to know what you're going after.Saying all of that, you could transfer the zone to a non-integrated instance and parse the zone file if you really wanted to.I'd opt for the script, but that's me.Al
From: AD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:00 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone ever convert dnsRecord attribute?Hi Al,Can you elaborate how I can export the entire zone via DNS.ThanksYves
From: Mulnick, Al
Sent: Fri 26/03/2004 11:57 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone ever convert dnsRecord attribute?Why do you want to enumerate via LDAP? Why not via DNS?
From: AD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 11:39 AM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Anyone ever convert dnsRecord attribute?Help,We have a DNS integrated zone and I have a need to enumerate all reverse lookup records. Unfortunetaly the computer name in saved in a octectstring format attribute called dnsRecord.Lookup a record in theDC=xx.in-addr.arpa,CN=MicrosoftDNS,CN=System,DC=DomainName"container and you will see what I am talking about.As anyone ever written a function to convert this octetstring to something that is readable?ThanksYves St-Cyr