remove dns records

[michaelchs]

Hiya all,

Anyone happen to know how to remove a record from DNS totally? I'm tryin to remove a host record that seems to point to old address of a server..the old address was set by DHCP and can't seem to get it off my DNS..

cheers

[txops]

michaelchs, Have you tried

ipconfig /flushdns at the command line?

It might help

[tguy]

If the record still persists in DNS you could use the DNSCMD.EXE utility from the resource kit to flush it.

DNSCMD /RECORDDELETE....

[michaelchs]

Hi txops and tguy,

the ipconfig /flushdns didnt work.. i've also tried the dnscmd too, but still there

[tguy]

Are you looking at DNS records on a server that is either Active Directory integrated? In this case you need to make sure that the record you want to remove is deleted from all domain controllers DNS zones and then flushed from the cache,

OR

Are you looking at DNS records on a server that is a secondary server for the DNS zone that holds the record you are trying to delete? In this situation, you need to delete the record from the primary DNS server and flush it from the cache. The changes will then propagate out to the secondary servers.

Good luck.