Nslookup shows the name resolution, if you are getting the wrong IP even DNS server has the correct entry or actual authoritative server is up and the DNS resolution failing, how to troubleshoot this and is there any way to determine which name server (NS) am hitting for the DNS resolution Also Read: Most used… Read More »
One of the Domain Controller DNS entries pointing to wrong IP Address (resolving with the wrong IP address) which is affected Active Directory authentication and other services. This is a unique issue which I have come across It’s a single forest with multiple child domains as the architecture, when try to resolve one of the… Read More »
Nslookup for WINS Entry? We all know using Nslookup tool we can check the DNS name resolution, easy to use while troubleshooting name resolution and DNS related issues, NSLookup tool also used to check the WINS entry, yes you can check the WINS entry using NBlookup tool to query against a WINS server If you… Read More »
Extracting the DNS root hints from windows DNS servers are simple procedure, before going to explain this I would like to explain how the root hints are configured in windows servers, if you have question like how root hints are configured and is DNS root hints are replicated through Active Directory replication then read further… Read More »
Free Nslookup Tool for Windows with GUI interface It’s a normal Windows Nslookup tool, command line windows Nslookup tool been converted to user friendly GUI tool, this tool used to check the DNS entry and it has many customized features Features of DNS Lookup Tool • You can check the different record types (A, MX,… Read More »
Using DNS Management tool you can check, create and delete DNS entry in Windows DNS server, it seems to be simple however in a large environment it’s not that simple, let’s say if you have multiple zones and every zone have huge DNS entry’s then it’s very difficult to check, create and delete the DNS… Read More »
DNSCMD command line tool can be used to create DNS entry, I would like to explain how we can use DNSCMD to create and delete bulk DNS record from text file, creating and deletion bulk DNS entry it very simple if you use this procedure How to create Bulk DNS record First we will see… Read More »
Free Tool to create DNS entry Using this tool you can create DNS entry, no need to open a DNS management console you can just open the DNS Record Creation Tool and copy past the DNS record name and IP address and select the create button this will create both forward and reverse entries Creating… Read More »
Deleted DNS record reappear or comes back, unable to delete I think every Windows admin have faces an issue with the DNS entry deletion, after the DNS entry deletion it came back, after refreshing the screen via hitting F5 the record reappears, mostly it happen for PTR record If you configure DNS scavenging in your… Read More »
Check the DC IP address from multiple DC’s Some time we have to check one server DNS IP address from many domain controllers, we can use this command, please enter the list of server in list.txt for /f %a in (list.txt) do nslookup server name %a exg: for /f %a in (list.txt) do nslookup test0001 %a This command will… Read More »
