Re: Event ID 5504

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 08/03/04


Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:55:58 -0500

In news:10h028bh80dg04e@corp.supernews.com,
cst112 <cst112no-spam-please@yahoo.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
>> For some reason your DNS server may be sending a query
>> for an illegal single-label top level domain, there was
>> a case a few weeks back, DNS was querying the ISPs DNS
>> for localhost that was causing the 5504. Creating a zone
>> named localhost with a blank host with IP 127.0.0.1
>> stopped the 5504s.
>
> So in my DNS under
> Forward lookup Zone I create a new zone called localhost
>
> example:
> Forward Lookup Zones
> mydomain.com
> localhost
>
> then I create blank hostname A record with 127.0.0.1. (
> it gives me a warning that it is an illegal hostname)
>

Did you click OK to create the record anyway?
That is a message Win2k popped up, just click OK to create the record
anyway, Win2k3 no longer gives the message.

>
> ( I don't fully understand how localhost is a zone as
> opposed to an A record in mydomain.com)

If you created a host named localhost in your mydomain.com zone the FQDN of
that record would be localhost.mydomain.com. In the localhost zone its name
is just "localhost", with no domain suffix.

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