I have a separate DNS server here for external queries. That server
isn't AD-integrated, and only contains a handful of records for hosts
that need to be reached from the outside world. This task has been
handled by a Server 2003 server.

I've shut down DNS on that server and moved its IP address to a new
Server 2008 server. But for some reason, the Server 2008 machine is
blocking all DNS queries from any other machine (on our network or off).
Windows Firewall is configured to allow inbound and outbound TCP/UDP
traffic on port 53, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. But I get a
ton of these in the Security Log:

=====
The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a connection.

Application Information:
 Process ID:  1404
 Application Name: \device\harddiskvolume1\windows\system32\dns.exe

Network Information:
 Direction:  Inbound
 Source Address:  150.176.37.178
 Source Port:  53
 Destination Address: 150.176.37.163
 Destination Port:  58058
 Protocol:  17

Filter Information:
 Filter Run-Time ID: 0
 Layer Name:  Receive/Accept
 Layer Run-Time ID: 44
=====

The 150.176.37.178 machine is the DNS server, and the 150.176.37.163
machine is I'm trying to do a query from using nslookup. But I've also
got lots of entries like these from other hosts trying to query the
server.

I'm stumped as to why this traffic is being blocked. Any ideas?


John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us


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