FWIW - If your environment has HP OpenView Operations for Windows with the AD SPI, it will check all of these records for you assuming you are monitoring each DC. In addition, it will also determine if that each site is being covered by a GC and notify you if it is not the case.
-Aric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Verifying DNS records of many DC's Cool. I'll be eagerly waiting. :) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe > Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 13:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Verifying DNS records of many DC's > > I am actually working on a perl script to do this. I will see > if it is to a point that I would be willing to let people see > it. The big shortcoming right now is that it won't check GC > records very well because MS doesn't have a way (other than > reading files on a DC) to check to see what GCs are > "supposed" to be covering what sites. > > It will also generate an output file that can be read by > another script I have that will use nsupdate to purge > incorrect records. > > If I don't respond back on this in the next week and no one > else has a better solution, ping me. This will be a busy week > as I am going back to work after a week at the summit and > another week where I was at DEC. > > joe > > > ------------- > http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) > http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner > Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 1:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Verifying DNS records of many DC's > > Verify all correct SRV records exist in their correct zones, > no stale/duplicate IP's, etc. We had a situation where we > wanted to verify each DC's DNS records were correct, but > going through manually (or using dnslint.exe over and over) > is time consuming, so I was curious if there's an easier way > to go about this. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of deji Agba > > Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:27 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Verifying DNS records of many DC's > > > > Check them/verify them for what? Check if they exist or if they are > > good? > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I > > Microsoft MVP - Active Directory > > www.akomolafe.com > > www.iyaburo.com > > Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were > worried about > > Yesterday? -anon > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: David Adner > > Sent: Sun 4/11/2004 10:16 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Verifying DNS records of many DC's > > > > > > What's the best way of verifying the AD related DNS records for a > > Domain that has upwards of 100+ DC's? I know dnslint.exe > will check > > records, but is there a way to get it to check the records > for so many > > DC's easily? Or some other tool? Thx > > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > > List archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
