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Chapter 13. Managing DNS from the Command Line
"I daresay you haven't had much
practice," said the Queen. "When I
was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes
I've believed as many as six impossible things
before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"
Knowledgeable administrators can perform tasks much faster using
command-line tools than with graphical tools, such as the DNS
console. Fortunately for us, Microsoft has steadily improved in this
area, and the DNS command-line tools available with Windows Server
2003 are just as rich in features as the DNS console. In fact, many
query and configuration tasks can be done only
with a command-line tool.
Another benefit of understanding how to use command-line tools is
that you can create batch scripts that automate repetitive processes.
In this chapter, we will show you how easy it is to create a simple
batch script that installs the Microsoft DNS Server, configures some
name server settings, adds a zone, creates a resource record, and
toasts some bread. All right, maybe it can't toast
bread, but you get the idea. And don't worry if
scripting isn't your cup of tea; Windows batch
scripts, in their most basic form, contain nothing more than a list
of commands to execute. Our script is a little more complicated than
that, but not much.
Throughout this book we've shown you how to
configure a Microsoft DNS Server using the DNS console. The
command-line counterpart to the DNS console is
dnscmd, which is available in the Windows
Support Tools on the Windows Server 2003 CD.
dnscmd includes the proverbial kitchen sink
of options for managing a Microsoft DNS Server. We spend most of our
time in this chapter reviewing
dnscmd. We also cover other useful utilities
such as sysocmgr, for installing
the DNS server; and sc, which can
be used to query, start, and stop the DNS server. At the end of the
chapter, we provide a list of other DNS-related command-line tools
that are useful for querying and troubleshooting DNS.
