August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
Content preview from Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition
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Reverse lookup zones
Reverse lookup zones hold PTR records. A reverse lookup zone can also be a primary zone, a secondary zone, or a stub zone. Reverse lookup zones will need to match the organization network segment. Even if it is AD DS-integrated, the system will not create a default reverse lookup zone. It needs to be created manually.
As an example, I need to create a reverse lookup zone for my 10.10.10.0/24 network. I can use the following command to do that:
Add-DnsServerPrimaryZone -NetworkID "10.10.10.0/24" -ReplicationScope "Domain"
In the preceding command, -ReplicationScope is set to Domain. This means that it will be replicated to all domain controllers with integrated DNS in the domain.
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