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07-11-2005, 03:04 PM #1WHT Addict
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Ideas To Clean Up Name Servers?
Hello All,
I'm researching the task of cleaning up our DNS servers from all the old domains, undeleted domains, old aliases and those that no longer actually use our name servers for DNS.
Any ideas or experiences to share?
Thanks Much!Kenneth R Taylor
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07-11-2005, 03:08 PM #2Web Hosting Guru
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It is a long process at times but it is well worth the efford once you are organized.
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07-11-2005, 03:10 PM #3WHT Addict
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oh, I fully understand the benefit of getting it done ....I'm stumped on how to accomplish this with some efficiently though.
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07-11-2005, 07:34 PM #4WHT Addict
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Well, you mostlikely need to run a WHOIS lookup on all suspected dead entries to make sure. I cant really think of anything automated to do. Preventively for the future, I would note an account anytime such an entry is created, then upon cancelling an account, look through your notes and clean up at that time instead of letting it get out of hand.
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07-12-2005, 10:20 AM #5WHT Addict
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Thanks Dyna, We do have a proceedure and pretty good account notes....however in 6 1/2 years time I believe there are some missed and I want to "clean house".
Anyone know of a "mass whois" script that could handle several thousand domains to querry to determine the name servers? I'd like to run all our customer domains through there.Kenneth R Taylor
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07-12-2005, 11:18 AM #6WHT Addict
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07-12-2005, 11:30 AM #7WHT Addict
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Thanks for the link Dynawebd. 100 at a time, but it does not report the name servers.
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07-12-2005, 11:45 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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maybe just remove them when your customers cancel?
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07-12-2005, 12:04 PM #9WHT Addict
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Hehe, well of course. Why didn't I think of that!
All kidding aside, yes...we do that. But there are some missed (aliases, expired domains etc) and after 6+ years....yep, they add up.Kenneth R Taylor
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07-13-2005, 12:29 PM #10Disabled
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Hi iNet7,
It shouldn't be difficult (if you know PHP or Perl that is) to write a script which you can run and put in a list of all your domains, your nameservers and have it display those which don't resolve to your nameservers.
If you can't do it yourself, someone here most likely can, look throught teh programming forums and post a request in the advertising forums.
Good luck!
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07-13-2005, 12:34 PM #11WHT Addict
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Thanks, great advice. I'll go post there now.
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07-15-2005, 01:18 PM #12WHT Addict
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Update
FYI......I've contacted a programer we work with from time-to-time and he built a script that allowed me to paste a list of my domains in. The after it was run, it would post results of ONLY the domains that did not have either of our name servers listed. It worked quite nicely and took about 20 minutes to run.
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