Recipe 13.3 Viewing a Server's Zones
13.3.1 Problem
You want to view
the
zones on a server.
13.3.2 Solution
13.3.2.1 Using a graphical user interface
Open the DNS Management snap-in. Right-click on DNS in the left pane and select Connect to DNS Server. Enter the server you want to connect to and click Enter. In the left pane, expand the server and click Forward Lookup Zones
and Reverse Lookup Zones to view the supported zones.
13.3.2.2 Using a command-line interface
> dnscmd <DNSServerName> /enumzones
13.3.2.3 Using VBScript
' This code lists the zones that are supported by the specified server.
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strServer = "<DNSServerName>" ' e.g. dc1.rallencorp.com
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
set objDNS = GetObject("winMgmts:\\" & strServer & "\root\MicrosoftDNS")
set objDNSServer = objDNS.Get("MicrosoftDNS_Server.Name="".""")
set objZones = objDNS.ExecQuery("Select * from MicrosoftDNS_Zone " & _
"Where DnsServerName = '" & _
objDNSServer.Name & "'")
WScript.Echo "Zones on " & objDNSServer.Name
for each objZone in objZones
WScript.Echo " " & objZOne.Name
next
13.3.3 Discussion
13.3.3.1 Using a graphical user interface
When you click on either the Forward Lookup Zones or Reverse Lookup
Zones in the left pane, the right pane contains a Type column that
displays the zone type for each zone.
13.3.3.2 Using a command-line interface
When using the /enumzones switch without any more
parameters, it displays all zones on the server. You can specify
additional filters that limit the types of zones returned. With the
Windows 2000 version of dnscmd, you can specify up
to two filters:
Filter1:
/Primary
/Secondary
/Cache
/Auto-Created
Filter2:
/Forward
/Reverse
With the Windows Server 2003 version of dnscmd,
the filter behavior has changed. Instead of having two levels of
criteria you can specify one or more of the following:
/Primary
/Secondary
/Forwarder
/Stub
/Cache
/Auto-Created
/Forward
/Reverse
/Ds
/File
/DomainDirectoryPartition
/ForestDirectoryPartition
/CustomDirectoryPartition
/LegacyDirectoryPartition
/DirectoryPartition <PartitionName>
13.3.3.3 Using VBScript
A WQL query was used to find all MicrosoftDNS_Zone
objects. You can add additional criteria to the WQL
Select statement to return a subset of zones
supported on the server.
13.3.4 See Also
MSDN:
MicrosoftDNS_Zone
|