Skip DNS registration for Particular IP Addresses

Today I am sharing a TIP which can be used to skip DNS registration of some of the IP addresses (when you have assigned multiple IP to a single NIC). When NIC’s are multiple , its easy to just uncheck the box for DNS registration as shown below:(register this connection’s address in DNS ) Challenge…

Auditing DNS Records

Hi Readers, There can be situations when DNS record is deleted & you have to find how it got deleted. Record may have been deleted manually but unless Auditing is enabled you will not be able to tell by whom. Here are the steps that you have to follow to enable it, first step is…

GlobalNames Zone

Hi Readers, I was just brushing up my windows server skills & thought that this is worth sharing with all as it is an important concept of DNS server which many of us don’t pay enough attention i.e.  GlobalNames Zone. In your organization if you require single labeled names than this is the way to go. There…

Monitor Critical DNS Records

Hi Readers, Recently we have faced an issue where some of the emails sent from our domain were getting rejected. On troubleshooting we found that its because of some issue at our ISP & our domain’s reverse DNS entries were missing. Issue is fixed now but we wanted to be proactive in knowing if our…