DnsServers

Microsoft DNS servers' configuration.

The hereafter table lists links between fields and settings in the DNS administration console. Please read the Microsoft DNS help for more information.

Field name

Data type

Description

id_snapshot

number

Identifier of the network snapshot.

server_name

string

Netbios name of the server without the two preceding backslash characters.

DatabaseDirectory

string

Folder were all zone file are stored. If empty means %Systemroot%\System32\Dns

Forwarders

string

See Forwarders tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

ForwardingTimeout

number

See Forwarders tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

LogLevel

number

Bit mask (see Appendix 1)

ListenAddresses

 

Interfaces tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

NoRecursion

number

1/0 "Enable recursion" in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

BindSecondaries

number

1/0 Bind Secondaries in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

StrictFileParsing

number

1/0 "Failed on load if bad data" in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

RoundRobin

number

1/0 "Enable Round robin" in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

LocalNetPriority

number

1/0 "Enable netmask ordering" in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

SecureResponses

number

1/0 "Secure cache against polution" in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

ScavengingInterval

number

(hours) "Enable automatic scavenging of stale record" in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

NameCheckFlag

number

1/0 "Fail load on bad data file" in the Advanced tab of the DNS administration console (server properties)

BootMethod

number

"Load zone data on startup". See appendix 2.

 

Appendix 1 Log level

Value

Meaning

0x0

None. The DNS Service does not create Dns.log.

0x1

Queries

0x10

Notifications

0x20

Updates

0xFE

Non-query transactions

0x100

Questions

0x200

Answers

0x1000

Send packets

0x2000

Receive packets

0x4000

UDP packets

0x8000

TCP packets

0xFFFF

All packets

0x10000

Active Directory write transaction

0x20000

Active Directory update transaction

0x1000000

Full packets

0x80000000

Write-through transactions

Appendix 2 Boot method

Value

Description

0

Unknown

1

Load from file

2

Load from registry

3

Load from registry and active directory