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DNS Scavenging Issues

I have taken over a network that has some DNS issues. Scavenging has not been active in over two years. I know that this needs to be setup on intervals to automatically run but the issue I am having is that this doesn't seem to do anything about the old host A files that already exist for machines that are long gone. On average each server on this network has 3 to 4 host A files attached to its ip address. I am very new to DNS so I am not quite sure how to deal with this issue? I can clean up the servers easily enough because their number is limited but i have 4000 plus clients that makes it unrealistic to try to fix the issue completely by hand.

I am sure there is a quick and dirty way to take care of this and any help would be great! I may just not be using scavenging correctly?

Chris Dent

Hey,

The first thing you have to know about Scavenging is that it requires a fair bit of patience. When you first set the Aging intervals and enable a zone for Scavenging it places a lock on the zone preventing anything from being Scavenged for a full pass of the Refresh Interval.

When did you enable Scavenging? And what Aging Intervals did you apply?

Chris

Diesel79

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It has not actually been set yet. I was going to do something like a 15 day expiration with a 20 deletion? Obviously this has ran like it is for 2 years so i figured that interval would be more than enough. I had it set for a bit but the manual scavenge did nothing to help the issue i was having and I am not really familiar enough with this process to be comfortable with just letting it run and "see what it does". Basically your saying not to worry about manually executing one, just set the intervals and let it run and it will eventually clean up these old host A files? I didnt think it was working properly because the manual scavenge left them in place?

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Diesel79

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The link provided actually worked out great. I dont believe i will need the scripts you offered at this time but if i find out differently i will contact you. Thanks for you help!