Scripting DNS entries
For reasons to do with DR we needed to change our IP addressing scheme, either for our servers or for our PCs and printers and what not. Obviously changing PCs and printers was a whole lot easier due to the possible issues of inept developers’ hard coding IP addresses causing no end of problems with re-addressing the servers. This has entailed changing all the DNS entries for our printers, (whatever happened to the paperless office?) That in itself is no real challenge, they all have web interfaces so a quick connect and amend the setting then next printer. Updating the DNS entries was going to be a bit tiresome so I did a quick Google on how to do this with a script and up popped DNSCMD. You can run this from a CMD box on your PC, the main options you need to know are /recorddelete and /recordadd. To delete a record you simple need to type dnscmd <ServerName> /recorddelete <ZoneName> <NodeName> <RRType> <RRData>[/f] What does all that mean? We...