Re: Event ID: 5504

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 19:37:28 -0500

In news:829C8C82-C046-47C0-AD8E-4D21518F3DD8@microsoft.com,
InBan <InBan@discussions.microsoft.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> I'd still like to know why the DNS servers are trying to
> resolve localhost. It shouldn't be necessary to have a
> localhost entry in forward lookup. This query isn't being
> generated by a client, it is coming from the internal
> Windows DNS server. The frequency/regularity bothers me.
> For 3 or 4 days every 1 or two months, every 15 minutes
> it sends four queries to each root hint server to resolve
> localhost. This does not seem to be normal behaviour.

Possibly it is coming from its own client, I can't think of a reason why a
DNS server would try to resolve a name unless it is asked to resolve it.
What else is on the box?
Is the DNS client service running?
Does ipconfig /displaydns display localhost? 

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