Active Directory with PowerShell

Managing DNS Clients

So far we have seen different DNS sever-related operations in this chapter. As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, a module is available for managing the client-side operations related to DNS. It can be loaded using the following command:

Import-Module DnsClient

In the previous section, we used the Resolve-Dnsname cmdlet from this module, which helps in resolving the DNS names. The following are some of the frequent DNS operations that are performed from the client's-side and sample codes:

Get client-side DNS cache. This is equivalent to the ipconfig /displaydns command in Windows as shown in the following command:

Get-DnsClientCache

The client-side cache can be cleared by using the following command. This is equivalent ...