DNS error ?!?!

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sat Feb 10 05:19:07 UTC 2001


         Contact Microsoft Support.  It's their product.

                 Danny
At 05:57 AM 2/9/01, Simone wrote:
>I' ve a DNS server as a primary DNS server, and the same DNS server as a
>secondary DNS server in another IP address that points in the same PC.
>
>In the event viewer of NT 4, where my DNS server is, i read often this error
>message:
>
>DNS Server encountered a packet addressed to itself -- IP address
>222.222.222.222
>The DNS server should never be sending a packet to itself.  This situation
>usually indicates a configuration error. Check the following areas for
>possible self-send configuration errors:
>1) Forwarders list. (DNS servers should not forward to themselves).
>2) Master lists of secondary zones.
>3) Notify lists of primary zones.
>4) Delegations of subzones.  Must not contain NS record for DNS server
>Example:     -> This DNS server dns1.foo.com is the primary for the zone
>foo.com.     -> You have delegated the zone bar.foo.com to
>bardns.bar.foo.com. and         are NOT running the bar.foo.com zone on this
>DNS (dns1.foo.com).     -> bar.foo.com MUST NOT have an NS record that
>points at dns1.foo.com.
>Note, you should make this check (with nslookup or DNS manager) both on
>this DNS server and on the server(s) you delegated the subzone to.
>It is possible that the delegation was done correctly, but that the primary
>DNS for the subzone, has any incorrect NS record pointing back at this
>server.
>If this incorrect NS record is cached at this server, then the self-send
>could result.
>If found, the subzone DNS server admin should remove the     offending NS
>record.
>
>I don't forward to my server, I don't hava secondary zones, i don't Know
>about notify list ..... :( and I don't delegate anything, what could be
>wrong?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Simone
>
>



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