If you are lazy (as we are) or you don’t want to waste all your time adding DNS entries manually, you can use dnscmd via command line on Windows. It’s a nice way to put a large entries from a file or something that needs further configuration.
PROMPT> dnscmd help
dnscmd yourdnsserver /RecordAdd yourdomain.com mynewrecord A ip
so
(creates ftp.domain.com that points to 192.168.1.20)
dnscmd localhost /RecordAdd domain.com ftp A 192.168.1.20
(creates www.domain.com that points to 192.168.1.21)
dnscmd localhost /RecordAdd domain.com www A 192.168.1.21
You can use A, CNAME, PTR, TXT etc.
An example of a batch file putting entries in the same IP using loops.
PROMPT> type records.txt
record1
record2
record2
etc …
type dns.bat
@echo off
set dnshost=localhost
set domain=yourdomain.com
set type=A (dns type, PTR, CNAME etc)
set ipserver=192.168.1.20
echo “We are reading line by line records.txt”
for /f %%record in (records.txt) do dnscmd %dnshost% /RecordAdd %domain% %%record %type% %ipserver%
See you!