2003/ XP Entries Deleted?

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Sian Clarke

Hi All,

Can anyone help with a huuuge problem I'm having at the moment? You'll
have to bear with me as my DNS knowledge is a little primitive. I'm
running a 2000 Native AD, with four W2K Adv. SP4 DC's. I'm also running
an integrated AD DNS. Now, my 2003 Servers and XP client Host and MX
records are being deleted from DNS at regular 14 day periods? But my
2000 flavour servers and workstations are all okay? I've done some
research on the web and can't seem to find anything. Within my DNS,
I've had a look through the settings for scavenging and this doesn't
appear to be the problem.

ANY help greatly appreciated :o)


Thanks People,
Sian.
 
Sian Clarke said:
Hi All,

Can anyone help with a huuuge problem I'm having at the moment? You'll
have to bear with me as my DNS knowledge is a little primitive. I'm
running a 2000 Native AD, with four W2K Adv. SP4 DC's. I'm also running
an integrated AD DNS. Now, my 2003 Servers and XP client Host and MX
records are being deleted from DNS at regular 14 day periods?
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Go check them (right click on a sample record and choose properties) to make
sure that MANUAL resource records do NOT have "Delete this record..."
checked.

ONLY your DYNAMIC entries should have that -- and only DHCP clients
should be doing be included in that type. These (DHCP) machines should
also be updating their records periodically so that they will not become
stale (unless abandoned.)

MX records should certainly be STATIC so this should be easy to fix.

(Almost all) servers should be static so easy fix again.
But my 2000 flavour servers and workstations are all okay? I've done some
research on the web and can't seem to find anything. Within my DNS, I've
had a look through the settings for scavenging and this doesn't appear to
be the problem.

ANY help greatly appreciated :o)
Click to expand...
 
Herb said:
Go check them (right click on a sample record and choose properties) to make
sure that MANUAL resource records do NOT have "Delete this record..."
checked.

ONLY your DYNAMIC entries should have that -- and only DHCP clients
should be doing be included in that type. These (DHCP) machines should
also be updating their records periodically so that they will not become
stale (unless abandoned.)

MX records should certainly be STATIC so this should be easy to fix.

(Almost all) servers should be static so easy fix again.
Click to expand...
Superb! I've just had a look at my static entries and, sure enough,
ticks in the box for 'Delete this record when it become stale'. I'll
take these out for my statics and see how we get on. Thanks a lot,
Herb, very much appreciated :o)
 
But my 2000 flavour servers and workstations are all okay? I've done
Superb! I've just had a look at my static entries and, sure enough, ticks
in the box for 'Delete this record when it become stale'. I'll take these
out for my statics and see how we get on. Thanks a lot, Herb, very much
appreciated :o)
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You are welcome. What I have never understood is HOW these
get set this way (it's not the first time we have heard of this but it
has never happened to me or my customers).

Of course you MIGHT have just done this mistakenly but that
seems unlikely for more than a couple of records.

<scratches head perplexited>
 
Yah I've seen that happen too. Not really sure why either.

Have you ever run dnscmd /ageallrecords? This marks all records as
aged not just dynamic ones. Could be something to do with when and
how you enable scavenging.
 
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