Monitoring DNS

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Monitoring your Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure on a regular basis and resolving any issues that you find will help to keep your network accessible to your users.

The following tasks for monitoring DNS are described in this objective:

• Check DNS event log

• Verify DNS server responsiveness with Nslookup

• Verify dynamic DNS record updates

• Verify zone transfers

• Check the DNS server debug log file

• Test a query on the DNS server