Re: Automated Query Test Failed

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Can you check which Query is failing? Is it the simple query against your DNS
or Recursive Query to other DNS? You can check this from monitoring tab in
Properties of the DNS Server in DNS Management Console.

With Regards,
M S Ali

"Newscene" wrote:

> We don't have any forwarders configured on either of our DNS. The other one
> id NOT exhibiting this problem even without forwarders. These servers have
> been running this way for about 6 months and this just started last week.
>
>
>
> "M S Ali" <MSAli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:937A117F-4C02-4F08-BA76-36D08FB75DA7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Please ensure your forwarders are configured correctly to point to ISP DNS
> > and these external dns servers are able to reachable from you dns server.
> >
> > With Regards,
> > M S Ali
> >
> > "Newscene" wrote:
> >
> >> We have suddenly encountered a failure on one of our Win2000 DNS. We are
> >> having the "Automated Query Test Failed" but we haven't found anything
> >> that
> >> we can identify as the problem. And there is zero information in the
> >> Knowledgebase about this problem.
> >>
> >> The server is answering queries in the local domains but does not respond
> >> for external lookups.
> >>
> >> Can anyone shed some light on the problem and how we can recover from it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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>
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