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DNS mess duplicate entries with different IP

Have a customer with two sites with one DC/DNS server on each site.

Laptop pc's are switching sites on a daily basis. There are lots of duplicate entries where a pc have two or three different ip adresses on the same site. And some ip adresses are listed with two or three different PC-names.

How do I clean up this mess?

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TANGLAD

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Thanks for the links.

If the users are switching sites on a daily basis, then how do I best setup the DCHP lease periods and DNS scavenging?

and what happens if a pc's is on one site on the start of the day and then travels to the other site later that day?

Brian Pierce

You need to balance the lease renewal period - too short and you will get lots of renewals (not necessarily a problem), but too long and leases will not be released (more of a potential problem). You could start by opting for a 4hr lease and see how it goes. The the normal advice then would be to set ageing and scavenging to match.

TANGLAD

ASKER

Ok you say a 4 hr lease in DHCP

And then a 4 hr DNS no-refresh interval

And how about the DNS refresh interval?

Nelesh_N

We had a situation where the dhcp lease period was set to 8hrs and someone set the no refresh interval and refresh interval to 8 this caused lots of issues wheer dns entries were deleted. Prod systems went down and caused alot of problems.