> Brian Steele wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > Got a call from another sysadmin this morning. He said that our DNS
server
> > (NT4/SP6a/MS-DNS) was flooding his DNS server (Ultrix?/BIND 8) with
queries.
> > He produced this snippet of his log file as proof:
> >
>
> Solution: Replace the NT machine with a machine running a real
> operating system, ie (Solaris7/Sparc), (Alpha/Tru64),
> (Intel/OpenBSD/FreeBSD), (Intel/Linux). Then reformat the NT box and
> send the NT distribution material back to Redmond with a letter
> demanding a refund.
> Sorry, couldn't keep that one to myself :-)
Will do...
...just as soon as I trade in my trusty car for a horse-and-carriage.
Damned car is too expensive to run, and too complex for me to figure out.
Sorry, couldn't keep that one to myself either :-)
Seriously, I would like to know what's going on here. I'm clueless about
the format of his logs, but the entries seem to suggest that the requests
are originating from his server, not mine...
Brian
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