DNS Scavenging issues

[eseabrook2008]

Okay, so here is my question about scavenging ...the date stamp on my Reverse PTR's are dated 06/Nov/2007 but the date stamp on my Forward records about 05/Feb/2008. Is scavenging not taking place? I'm assuming not since there are missing/mixed up entries in both Reverse and Forward zones...

ie) Forward: Name - acc01.domain.com IP - 172.16.100.120
acc02.domain.com IP - 172.16.100.171
Reverse: IP - 172.16.100.120 Name - acc02.domain.com
IP - 172.16.100.171 Name - acc03.domain.com

It's not like this for all entries, only for about 10.

I ask this because the zone is set to age/scavenge after 1 hour YET, under properties of the DNS server "enable auto scavenge..." is not set.

I did not setup this server but something seems weird about this setup. I don't want to manual start a scavenge in the event that it messes things up more than it already is! - BTW - Windows Server 2003

The Lease duration for DHCP clients is set to 1 day. "Enable DNS dynamic updates"; "always dynamically update DNS A and PTR"; "Discard A and PTR records" - are all set in DHCP.

 

[lhuegele]

Run a manual scavange and see if it changes anything. If it does, then you know it's not auto scavanging.

Good luck,

 

[eseabrook2008]

I just don't want it delete any records that shouldn't be deleted!

 

[chipk]

only records that have registered dynamically and have aged will be scavenged.