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Mastering Active Directory
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Mastering Active Directory

by Dishan Francis
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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A and AAAA records

Host records are used to map FQDN to an IP address. These records are used for IPv4 and AAAA records are used for IPv6. In AD and integrated DNS, every device will have an A or AAAA record when it is added to the domain. If the IP addresses get changed, the system will automatically update its DNS record too. The following commands can be used to add, remove, or list the A records:

To add an A record, run the following command:

Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA -Name "blog" -ZoneName "REBELADMIN.COM" -IPv4Address "192.168.0.200"

To remove an A record, run the following command:

Remove-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName "REBELADMIN.COM" -RRType "A" -Name "blog"

To list A records in a zone, run the following command:

Get-DnsServerResourceRecord ...
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