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So far, the command appears to have worked. I will have to wait and see whether or not the command makes a difference though. I'm not sure when schedule the automatic updates used before, but typically about once a week.
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So far, the command appears to have worked. I will have to wait and see whether or not the command makes a difference though. I'm not sure when schedule the automatic updates used before, but typically about once a week.

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I have a windows server 2008 domain controller that has the DNS server role installed for internal DNS management. The server has an internal IP address and an external IP address. The internal IP address, of course, is registered to the NIC on the server. I need the DNS server records to use the external IP address (for reasons I need not go into, but good reasons never-the-less). Every time I update the host A record with the external IP address, several days later it gets automatically updated to use the IP address assigned to the NIC. I have found that there is a setting in the NIC configuration that says &quot;automatically update DNS&quot;, which I have turned off. Does anyone know how else the host A record is getting automatically updated?
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I have a windows server 2008 domain controller that has the DNS server role installed for internal DNS management. The server has an internal IP address and an external IP address. The internal IP address, of course, is registered to the NIC on the server. I need the DNS server records to use the external IP address (for reasons I need not go into, but good reasons never-the-less). Every time I update the host A record with the external IP address, several days later it gets automatically updated to use the IP address assigned to the NIC. I have found that there is a setting in the NIC configuration that says "automatically update DNS", which I have turned off. Does anyone know how else the host A record is getting automatically updated?

Windows Server DNS automatically updates A records

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.