Re: would like to know / track who is using my DNS...

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 01/14/05


Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:04:43 -0600

In news:1105658372.189845.273640@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com,
Mike <mdunne@bcc.ctc.edu> commented
Then Kevin replied below:
> I am currently using Microsoft Active DNS and was
> wondering if there is a way to track -
> 1) Who is using my DNS (host name / IP Address of
> requestor) 2) What names are they looking up
> - at what time did the lookup occur
>
> Does such a log exist in/on MS DNS?
> Is there a third party product that will do this?
> Thanks so much.
>
> Mike

One particular tool? not that I know of, at least one that logs all you
want. You can enable Advanced logging (Advanced tab) in combination with the
port reporter tool, that logs TCP and UDP connections.
That said, DNS is usually a read only service sending out packets of less
than 512 bytes, some packets are larger but that's another story. Anyway the
point is enabling Advanced logging is intended for short term
diagnostistics, using advanced logging can cause the DNS service to log 7020
events and time out because DNS can easily have hundreds if not thousands of
querys per minute and it takes considrable CPU resources to write a log.
This is addition to the port reporter that logs UDP/TCP connections.
 It could easily take a pretty mean machine just to write the logs you want
for this one service.

Availability and description of the Port Reporter tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837243

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Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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