Monitoring and Troubleshooting DNS
Now that you have set up and configured your DNS name server and created some resource records, you will want to confirm that it is resolving and replying to client DNS requests. A couple of tools allow you to do some basic monitoring and managing. Once you are able to monitor DNS, you’ll want to start troubleshooting.
The simplest test is to use the ping command to make sure the server is alive. A more thorough test would be to use nslookup to verify that you can actually resolve addresses for items on your DNS server.
In the following sections, we’ll look at some of these monitoring and management tools, as well as how to troubleshoot DNS.
Monitoring DNS with the DNS Snap-In
You can use the DNS snap-in to ...
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