# Create a zone

# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# From the book "DNS on Windows Server 2003" 
# By Cricket Liu, Matt Larson & Robbie Allen
# Publisher: O'Reilly and Associates
# ISBN: 0-596-00562-8
# Book web site: http://rallenhome.com/books/dnsonw2k3/toc.html
# ---------------------------------------------------------------

use Win32::OLE;

$strNewZone = 'movie.edu.';
$strServer = 'terminator.movie.edu';

$objDNS = Win32::OLE->GetObject('winMgmts:\\\\' . $strServer . '\\root\\MicrosoftDNS');
$objDNSZone = $objDNS->Get('MicrosoftDNS_Zone');
$strNull = $objDNSZone->CreateZone($strNewZone, 0, 1);

if ((0 + Win32::OLE::LastError())) {
    print 'Error occurred creating zone: ' . ('' . Win32::OLE::LastError()), "\n";
}
else {
    print "Zone created...\n";
}