Powershell – How to get DNS SERVER Statistics ? Total Queries per day ? (windows Server 2003)

Short answer is "No" (at least for external/regulat DNS lookups) because DNS needs to run on port 53.

One thing you could do (depending on how much of a pain it would be) is to modify the hosts file on some of the PCs so that they resolve the way you want them to without going to the DNS server for a lookup.

That being said... you did mention this was for internal use. So you might be able to come up with some work-arounds. Perhaps Conditional Forwarding might help you?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304491

There is no built-in statistics mechanism to give you any kind of per-domain query statistics.

Off the top of my head I can think of two things you could do:

• Use Wireshark (probably the "text only" version, "tshark") to capture incoming DNS queries to files. You could parse the files and report on them.

• Turn on the "Debug Logging" functionality on the DNS server (in the "Properties" for the DNS server), ticking only the boxes for "Incoming", "UDP", "Queries", and "Request". You'll have to parse the log file that the DNS server generates, but it may be easier than parsing output from Wireshark.