W2K DNS Scavenging - Does it work well?

[wblundell]

Our company currently has a problem:

We have a large number of duplicate DNS records that are pointing to single IP addresses. This is causing name resolution issues.

I have also found that these duplicate records do not have any timestamps associated with the records.

Will DNS scavenging help us? I am afraid that if I turn on scavenging, it will go out and delete the manually added addresses for our servers, printers, etc.

Can anyone answer the following two questions for me:

1) Why do some records have timestamps and others do not? Is this due to the client registering with DNS and not the DHCP server?

2) If I turn on scavenging, are there any chances that my manually added records will be lost?

Thanks,
Warren Blundell

 

[wblundell]

Anyone have any thoughts on the timestamping isues?

Any input on scavenging would be apprechiated.

Thanks,
Warren