Deleting Empty Resource Records

• A new command line utility (dnsmaint.nlm) that supports deletion of empty RRs that have accumulated over time, is introduced in NetWare® 6.5SP3 release.

This utility must be executed on a NetWare 6.5 SP3 machine in the eDirectory tree. The usage of the utility is specified below.

dnsmaint -User [-Password] [-Zonelist] [-LocatorObject] [-NotUsedSince]

The command line options are listed in the table below:

 

Options	Description
-User	Refers to the FQDN of the eDirectory user.
-Password	eDirectory password of the user. Can be passed either as a command line parameter or can be entered later at the password prompt, when the utility is run.
-ZoneList	eDirectory FDQNs of the list of zones to be processed. Replace all occurences of dot '.' in zone name with underscore '_'. Zone names must be separated by a semicolon(;). If this option is missing, LocatorObject must be specified.
-LocatorObject	eDirectory FQDN of the DNS locator object. This option must be used only if -Zonelist option is not specified.
-NotUsedSince	Empty RR's not used since the specified number of days are deleted. By default all the empty RRs are deleted. Any number between 1 and 360 can be used.

-UserRefers to the FQDN of the eDirectory user.-PasswordeDirectory password of the user. Can be passed either as a command line parameter or can be entered later at the password prompt, when the utility is run.-ZoneListeDirectory FDQNs of the list of zones to be processed. Replace all occurences of dot '.' in zone name with underscore '_'.
Zone names must be separated by a semicolon(;).
If this option is missing, LocatorObject must be specified.-LocatorObjecteDirectory FQDN of the DNS locator object.
This option must be used only if -Zonelist option is not specified.-NotUsedSinceEmpty RR's not used since the specified number of days are deleted.
By default all the empty RRs are deleted.
Any number between 1 and 360 can be used.

Examples:

For all the samples, it is assumed that the eDirectory distinguished name of DNS locator object is dns-dhcp.novell.

• To delete all the empty Rrs from all the zones in the eDirectory tree.

dnsmaint -User:admin.novell -Password:novell -LocatorObject:.dns-dhcp.novell

• To delete all the empty RRs not used since 3 days, from all the zones.

dnsmaint -User:admin.novell -Password:novell -LocatorObject:.dns-dhcp.novell -NotUsedSince:3

• To delete all empty RRs from the zone blr.novell.com which is under eDirectory context dns-zones.

dnsmaint -User:admin.novell -Password:novell Zonelist:blr_novell_com.dns-zones

NOTE: All the '.' (dots) in the zone name blr.novell.com are replaced with '_'(underscores).

To delete empty RRs not used since 5 days from the zone 155.72.143.IN-ADDR.ARPA which is under eDirectory context novell.

dnsmaint -User:admin.novell -Password:novell -Zonelist:155_99_164_IN-ADDR_ARPA.novell -NotUsedSince:5

 

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