Searching in DNS Server

Question

Hi !
This has been a question  in my mind since many days ago
Why we cannot search DNS or maybe we can but i do not know how !
we have about 10 zones and about 3000 entries in a 2008 R2 DNS server and many times we need to search for a specific record
how can i search for a specific record in all zones ?
Thanks

Answer 1

I probably wont get credit, looks like this is already closed, but I found something.
I have the same problem, looking for DNS with wildcards, and the export option does not work, it doesn't export the whole tree.  For me it is tedious, because I have to remove a bad DC, and the metdata cleanup was not smooth.  So I am having to
go through DNS and clean it out manually.  With thousands upon thousands of records, and the DNS having random hex names, it is...unpleasant. 
MICROSOFT, PLEASE ALLOW A "Right Click" SEARCH ALL for DNS!
Solution:
While trying to export from the command line DNSCMD (which I have not fully explored, maybe there is something here??) I stumbled across this folder C:\Windows\System32\DNS\Backup\  (NOTE IT IS THE BACKUP, SO DELETED entries may already be gone) 
and it has one giant text file with all the DNS entries in it.   To get a fresh copy of the file to search, use;
dnscmd /ZoneExport Microsoft.local MSzone.txt
 This way I can 'find' with the current or backup file anyway I want, findstr being my preference, AND it will give me the full name.
Missing the backup folder?  Try the windows backup, and be sure to include live data.  This part I am not so sure, we setup our backups long ago, maybe some more searching for DNS backup ;)
Saving me HOURS of work!
Hope this saves someone else some time too :)
NOTES:
I also found some interesting stuff when I was searching, namely if I searched with FIND or FINDSTR it would return an entry like this;
                        600     SRV     0 100 3268      SERVER.NAME.COM.
so how to find it??  Turns out you need the line above it for the 'call' entry, if you find it in the file, you would find something like this;
_gc._tcp.MYSITE._sites  600     SRV     0 100 3268      SERVER01.NAME.COM.
                        600     SRV     0 100 3268      SERVER.NAME.COM.
Looking in the ZONE you dumped, start at _sites and you will find your entry.
I ended up just using notepad find, and searching that way!
BlankMonkey