Domain Controller Lookup Zone

This zone contains all reverse records for the 192 168 x x.

Domain controller lookup zone. On your domain controller open up dns manager. This would open dns manager. Steps to promote domain controller.

Right click reverse lookup zones and click new zone. This is an ad integrated zone. How you can find out the name and ip address of the ad domain controller on your network.

You can use nslookup is a command line tool that displays information you can use to diagnose domain name system dns infrastructure. The ptr record maps the in addr arpa domain name for the address to the host s actual domain name. Since i m setting a brand new domain i ll be creating a primary zone.

In the open box type cmd. When i create a reverse lookup zone manually this is the configuration. In this way it is not necessary to configure a separate dns replication topology that uses ordinary dns zone transfers because all zone data is replicated automatically by means of active directory replication.

The activity we have a reverse lookup zone 168 192 in addr arpa. All domain controllers in our environment are dns servers and vice versa. Nslookup returns one or more srv service location records that appear in the following format where server name is the host name of a domain controller and where domain name is the domain where the domain controller belongs to and server ip address is the domain controller s internet protocol ip address.

Choose to replicate to all dns servers running on domain controllers in this domain. To configure forward lookup zone on windows server 2012 r2 dns server click on start button select the down arrow and select dns. To enable a reverse lookup for a particular ip address all you have to do is create a ptr record in a reverse lookup zone a zone that is authoritative for a portion of the in addr arpa domain.