One of my Windows 2003 servers keeps repeating a "Standard Query A <Root>"
request (as shown in the Ethereal sniffer trace) to the DNS Server, and the
DNS Server keeps responding that the record doesn't exist. What is the
meaning of such a query? How can I fix that? Other Windows 2003 servers
are not issuing the request.

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Will

Hi
You should start by trying to identify which A record is that server
attempting to resolve and why that server needs to resolve that A record.
Enable debuging log in your dns server console and check that.

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I hope that the information above s you
Good Luck

Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

"Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
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> One of my Windows 2003 servers keeps repeating a "Standard Query A <Root>"
> request (as shown in the Ethereal sniffer trace) to the DNS Server, and
> the
> DNS Server keeps responding that the record doesn't exist. What is the
> meaning of such a query? How can I fix that? Other Windows 2003
> servers
> are not issuing the request.
>
> --
> Will
>
>

> "Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
> news:6_idndYue_iIzNXYnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> > One of my Windows 2003 servers keeps repeating a "Standard Query A
<Root>"
> > request (as shown in the Ethereal sniffer trace) to the DNS Server, and
> > the
> > DNS Server keeps responding that the record doesn't exist. What is
the
> > meaning of such a query? How can I fix that? Other Windows 2003
> > servers
> > are not issuing the request.

"Jorge Silva" <jorgesilva_pt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#oVXakc$GHA.4328@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> You should start by trying to identify which A record is that server
> attempting to resolve and why that server needs to resolve that A record.
> Enable debuging log in your dns server console and check that.

Unless I am missing something, the server isn't trying to resolve any
specific host. It almost looks like they are doing a null query. I
don't see any target hostname or domain, and ethereal represents it as
"Standard Query A <Root>" where the "<Root>" is a literal expression.

If there were any specific host or domain I wouldn't be here asking this
question. This seems to be some kind of special case query and I don't
understand how to decode it.

--
Will

any strange service running on the server that is asking for these queries,
try to disable one by one untill the queries stop overloading the other dns
server

--
I hope that the information above s you
Good Luck

Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

"Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
news:Ib2dnRRr2JGmtdTYnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> "Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:6_idndYue_iIzNXYnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> > One of my Windows 2003 servers keeps repeating a "Standard Query A
> <Root>"
>> > request (as shown in the Ethereal sniffer trace) to the DNS Server, and
>> > the
>> > DNS Server keeps responding that the record doesn't exist. What is
> the
>> > meaning of such a query? How can I fix that? Other Windows 2003
>> > servers
>> > are not issuing the request.
>
> "Jorge Silva" <jorgesilva_pt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:#oVXakc$GHA.4328@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> You should start by trying to identify which A record is that server
>> attempting to resolve and why that server needs to resolve that A record.
>> Enable debuging log in your dns server console and check that.
>
> Unless I am missing something, the server isn't trying to resolve any
> specific host. It almost looks like they are doing a null query. I
> don't see any target hostname or domain, and ethereal represents it as
> "Standard Query A <Root>" where the "<Root>" is a literal expression.
>
> If there were any specific host or domain I wouldn't be here asking this
> question. This seems to be some kind of special case query and I don't
> understand how to decode it.
>
> --
> Will
>
>