Authoritative Restore / DNS

With AD integrated DNS, does an authoritative restore also restore DNS
entries created by dynamic registration? EG - Imagine this series of events.

Backup AD
Change the IP address of Server1, let it propogate to other DCs
Restore AD from backup, do auth restore
Ping Server1

Do I get the old or new address? What I want, actually, IS the OLD address,
but I'm not sure how it works. Can someone tell me for sure?

Thanks.

ptwilliams
Mon Mar 21 12:27:12 CST 2005

The data is stored in the AD when in AD-Integrated mode. In Win2000 it's
under the System\ MicrosoftDNS container of the domain partition. In 2003
it can be in a separate partition.

Either way, you can perform an authorative restore and get the old data
back.


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ajfried
Mon Mar 21 12:31:03 CST 2005

Thanks for the reply. Is there some special form of Auth Restore or does the
"plain old" auth restore also automatically revert DNS info back to the state
it was in at the time of the backup (that is now being auth restored)?

Thanks.

"ptwilliams" wrote:

> The data is stored in the AD when in AD-Integrated mode. In Win2000 it's
> under the System\ MicrosoftDNS container of the domain partition. In 2003
> it can be in a separate partition.
>
> Either way, you can perform an authorative restore and get the old data
> back.
>
>
> --
>
> Paul Williams
>
> http://www.msresource.net/
> http://forums.msresource.net/
>
>
>

ptwilliams
Mon Mar 21 13:51:59 CST 2005

Plain old ;-)


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