Re: DNS Recursive Query Test Fails

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:33:07 -0600

"Peter B" <___deadrattie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OjSjZ18#EHA.2984@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Herb,
> thanks for that information.
>
> can this be safely ignored or should i alter some settings to get this
test
> to pass.

YES, IF everything you need to work is working.

> to answer your question: "IF the root hints were still set to the Internet
> (default) set ", -> yes they are still the defaults as dns setup, i have
> made no changes to the dns system, its the way w3k/ads installed and set
it
> up.

Ok, so you have a machien that is not connected to the
Internet, but has the root hints from the Internet (which
it cannot reach), so yes it will always fail the recursive
test and this does not matter in your case.

You might speed things up a bit (if you have no other
zones on other servers -- secondaries for this zone are
FINE, or zones on this server are ok) if you go to
advanced and Disable Recursion.

BUT WARNING: If you need that recursion OR need
forwarding later, that must be RE-enabled and it is
easy to forget or to forget where the setting is located. 

-- 
Herb Martin
>
> Thanks in advance
> Peter
>
>
> "Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
> news:OGXKg2y%23EHA.3260@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > "Peter B" <___deadrattie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:#xzrr7x#EHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > can't understand why my "DNS Recursive query test" fails, the simple
> test
> > > passes
> > > no dns error msgs in event viewer.
> >
> > This is fairly common since the recursive test
> > depends on having a VALID "root hints" (root
> > server list) and being able to reach that root and
> > recurse.
> >
> >
> > > Info:
> > > - DNS name "format": mycompanyname.city.local (server not on internet)
> >
> > Which makes it even more likely you would fail a
> > recursive test IF the root hints were still set to the
> > Internet (default) set -- and are in fact unreachable.
> >
> > > - main dc, wins/ad/dhcp/dns installed
> > > - 2nd dc, doesn't have dns installed as backup as of yet.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Herb Martin
> >
> >
> > >
> > > any help appreciated
> > > thanks in advance
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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