Remove DNS entries and reset from the Terminal

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Remove DNS entries and reset from the Terminal

I have a DNS service running on my Mac Server and it seems to be screwed up, because I can not remove any entries.

Initially, it let's me remove them...but when I click save...they all appear again!

What I want to do is to remove all entries manually and do anything else that will reset all of the DNS settings and let me start from scratch.

Can anyone help me?

Mac Mini Server, Mac OS X (10.6.4), OS X Server that came with the mini

Posted on Aug 30, 2010 8:07 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 2, 2010 7:30 AM in response to mmartinez74

I'm having a weird problem with my dns as well. I've done some research and have not been able to test it yet because the server is located at a clients business.
However, as far as I can tell, os x server keeps it's config files for the network here...

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

DNS is located here...

/var/named

and here...

/etc/dns

The name of the DNS server in the terminal is named. You can type man named in the terminal to learn how to stop and start it and other things about it.
Before tinkering with any of the files, I would recommend making a backup of them first. Hope this helps!

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mkahnucf

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Sep 20, 2010 10:34 AM in response to Axsimulate

I also found that starting fresh with config files helped fix some odd behavior from the SLS DNS Server
Some tips on starting fresh here http://www.mkahn.com/?p=279

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