Server 2003 - DNS Aging/Scavqging Question
Hey alll,
I setup Scavaging on my DNS Zones and it wiped out most of my server entries. I manually recreated them (and removed Scavaging for now). I thought Scavaging would only affect dynamically registered hosts....my servers use static IP's, and workstations use DHCP. Anyway, I am looking to see how I can do this (to remove old workstation IP's as people jump from the VPN network to our production LAN), without removing the server DNS entries. Our servers auto register with DNS...we have the "Register this connection with DNS" checkbox checked on each server.
Thanks.
I setup Scavaging on my DNS Zones and it wiped out most of my server entries. I manually recreated them (and removed Scavaging for now). I thought Scavaging would only affect dynamically registered hosts....my servers use static IP's, and workstations use DHCP. Anyway, I am looking to see how I can do this (to remove old workstation IP's as people jump from the VPN network to our production LAN), without removing the server DNS entries. Our servers auto register with DNS...we have the "Register this connection with DNS" checkbox checked on each server.
Thanks.
In your explaination you describe that your servers use dynamic registration, so they would be scavengable once they register. The only question is why they would be scavenged if the servers are online and should be renewing the registrations. If they were manually entered, they would not be scavengable until after the first time the host with the matching name re-registered the record and turned it into a dynamic entry, but at that point the server shoudl also be renewing that record as well.
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Naldiian,
Thanks. That was my isse too...however, we set the aging to 4 hours...would that have caused it? I believe with dynamic registration they check in to refresh every 24 hours. I am trying to figure that out too.
Thanks. That was my isse too...however, we set the aging to 4 hours...would that have caused it? I believe with dynamic registration they check in to refresh every 24 hours. I am trying to figure that out too.
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Naldiian,
I've been doing some testing. Since my server use DDNS to register with DNS, by default the "Delete this record when it becomes stale" box is checked by default. See the attached screenshot. When I uncheck this box, two things happen...the reverse PTR for the record goes away and I have to recreate it (not sure why this happens)...and when the server dynamincally registers with DNS again (or I do an ipconfig /registerdns from the server), it checks "Delete this record when it becomes stale" box again. So unchecking it is a temporary "fix."
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I've been doing some testing. Since my server use DDNS to register with DNS, by default the "Delete this record when it becomes stale" box is checked by default. See the attached screenshot. When I uncheck this box, two things happen...the reverse PTR for the record goes away and I have to recreate it (not sure why this happens)...and when the server dynamincally registers with DNS again (or I do an ipconfig /registerdns from the server), it checks "Delete this record when it becomes stale" box again. So unchecking it is a temporary "fix."
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Microsoft also confirms this:
"If the record was added dynamically using dynamic update, you can clear the Delete this record when it becomes stale check box to prevent its aging or potential removal during the scavenging process. If dynamic updates to this record continue to occur, the DNS server will always reset this check box so that the dynamically updated record can be deleted."
"If the record was added dynamically using dynamic update, you can clear the Delete this record when it becomes stale check box to prevent its aging or potential removal during the scavenging process. If dynamic updates to this record continue to occur, the DNS server will always reset this check box so that the dynamically updated record can be deleted."
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I would have to uncheck "Register the connection with DNS" on each server, delete the A and PTR records, and create them manually, whcih appears to be the only way the checkbox in the picture remains unchecked.
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