Infoblox: Deleting and Searching for objects
Click on the subnet that holds the desired object.
Search for the object to be deleted.
Check mark the object and click the "Reclaim" icon in the upper right hand corner.
Click "Yes" to delete the object.
Click the "Restart" button to restart services.
Regex can be used to search for objects under the "Advanced" search tab:
To verify an item has been removed from DNS you can run dig from the cli:
A response like below shows that the record is still active, a response missing the "ANSWER SECTION" would show a record that has been deleted assuming the question was typed in correctly:
[wboettcher@grunt]$ dig @144.92.254.254 -x 128.104.16.1
; <<>> DiG 9.9.9-P3 <<>> @144.92.254.254 -x 128.104.16.1
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42725
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 11
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1.16.104.128.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
1.16.104.128.in-addr.arpa. 11019 IN PTR vlan-645-cssc-gw.net.wisc.edu.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
104.128.in-addr.arpa. 56462 IN NS adns3.doit.wisc.edu.
104.128.in-addr.arpa. 56462 IN NS adns1.doit.wisc.edu.
104.128.in-addr.arpa. 56462 IN NS dns2.itd.umich.edu.
104.128.in-addr.arpa. 56462 IN NS adns2.doit.wisc.edu.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns2.itd.umich.edu. 1391 IN A 192.12.80.222
adns1.doit.wisc.edu. 14030 IN A 144.92.9.21
adns2.doit.wisc.edu. 6537 IN A 144.92.20.99
adns3.doit.wisc.edu. 9932 IN A 144.92.104.21
adns1.doit.wisc.edu. 388 IN AAAA 2607:f388::a53:1
adns1.doit.wisc.edu. 388 IN AAAA 2607:f388:2:2001::100a
adns2.doit.wisc.edu. 6537 IN AAAA 2607:f388:d:2::1006
adns2.doit.wisc.edu. 6537 IN AAAA 2607:f388::a53:2
adns3.doit.wisc.edu. 2842 IN AAAA 2607:f388::a53:3
adns3.doit.wisc.edu. 2842 IN AAAA 2607:f388:2:2001::100b
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 144.92.254.254#53(144.92.254.254)
;; WHEN: Wed Mar 22 14:38:15 CDT 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 423
[wboettcher@grunt]$