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Active Directory with PowerShell

By : Pamarthi Venkata Sitaram, YELLAPRAGADA U PADMAVATHI
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Book Image

Active Directory with PowerShell

5 (1)
By: Pamarthi Venkata Sitaram, YELLAPRAGADA U PADMAVATHI

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Active Directory with PowerShell
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing DNS Clients


So far we have seen different DNS sever-related operations in this chapter. As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, a module is available for managing the client-side operations related to DNS. It can be loaded using the following command:

Import-Module DnsClient

In the previous section, we used the Resolve-Dnsname cmdlet from this module, which helps in resolving the DNS names. The following are some of the frequent DNS operations that are performed from the client's-side and sample codes:

Get client-side DNS cache. This is equivalent to the ipconfig /displaydns command in Windows as shown in the following command:

Get-DnsClientCache

The client-side cache can be cleared by using the following command. This is equivalent to the ipconfig /flushdns command:

Clear-DnsClientCache

The following command displays the DNS servers configured on the LabNet network interface:

Get-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias Labnet -AddressFamily Ipv4

DNS server IP addresses on...