Yes, I thought about this, but does it makes sense that it is contacting
*the* DNS root servers??? I thought this was odd.
Thanks,
-Alex
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Adrian Marsden wrote:
I believe you will find there is a setting that tells a Win2k server to try TCP
if UDP fails for DNS resolution. Maybe the UDP was failing and the box was
doing as it was told.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 3/24/2006 1:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Subject: Win2k Machine contacting Root Server???
Hi,
I recently ran "netstat" on my personal laptop (running Win2k) and was
shocked to see that it had been making TCP connections to the root servers
(to their domain port). I know that some DNS queries are performed using
TCP, but I find it somewhat disturbing that the root servers were
involved.
I did a little googling and found a few remarks that Win2k machines
sometimes do this... But mine has the lastest updates....
So I'm a little concerned. Is this normal operation for a win2k machine,
or could something more amiss be going on? Norton Antivirus and SpyBot
Search & Destory didn't find anything wrong.
Thanks
-Alex
(I realize this is probably a normal thing, but I still find it
disturbing)
