Re: Event logging of DNS not working

Paul D B <polleke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two DC's which are both running DNS. One is a W2K server, the
> other one a W2003-SP1 server.
> Active Directory integrated.
> Since a few months, there are no more entries in the DNS event logs of
> neither server, except for 1 entry each time I restart the service
> (event 2 - DNS server started).
> On the W2K server, I don't see any option to enable/disable the
> logging. But on the W2003 server, the DNS management console is
> slightly different. There you can go into each DNS servers'
> properties and there is a tab "Event logging". I see there that it
> is set to "No events" to be logged. If I change it to another
> setting, e.g. "Errors and Warnings" and I push Apply or OK, then
> nothing changes. The change does not seem to be really executed. If
> I go into the properties of the server back again, the Event Logging
> is again set to "No Events".
>
> This seems like a bug in W2003 to me. I would like to work around it.
> Is there another way (maybe a registry change) to set the DNS event
> logging back on again?

Why would you think it is a bug?
My DNS servers go for days or weeks without logging anything.
What do you think it should be logging that it isn't?



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