Cleanup of Reverse DNS zone in active directory

Hi,

I seee that there are a lot of junk information in my windows 2000 DNS
(Reverse lookup zone) for each subnet that I have, and IP addresses belong
to stone aged computers that never cleaned up.
1) What is the best way to cleanup and keep it clean? (rather then doing
one at a time)
2) If I clean them up, what are the risk

The reason I want to do this, is because when I do NSLOOKUP, it is giving
me an old PC name that no longer exist
Thanks

MC

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CAMC1 <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Hi,
>
> I seee that there are a lot of junk information in my windows 2000 DNS
> (Reverse lookup zone) for each subnet that I have, and IP addresses
> belong to stone aged computers that never cleaned up.
> 1) What is the best way to cleanup and keep it clean? (rather then
> doing one at a time)
> 2) If I clean them up, what are the risk
>
> The reason I want to do this, is because when I do NSLOOKUP, it is
> giving me an old PC name that no longer exist
> Thanks
>
> MC

Enable scavenging on the zone. Ramifications and risks? None - it will clean
up old entries. If for whatever reason it cleans up something you didn't
want to get cleaned, the record will get re-created anyway through the
Dynamic DNS update process anyway. Also if you have any manually created
entries it will not touch them.


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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT, MVP
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
Microsoft Certified Trainer

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