Follow-up: request storms from Windows

[Simon Waters]

Ian Watts wrote:
> 
> On 16 Nov 2001, Will Yardley wrote:
> 
> > > Okay, it turns out that this problem arises when the AD servers do a
> > > lookup for an IP address where the ARPA zone has a CNAME for an NS
> > > record.
> >
> > well that's the problem; an NS record can't point to a CNAME.
> 
> Of course.  But it shouldn't cause the server to dive into a lookup loop,
> generating the same query over and over again as fast as it can.
> 
> Is that not a bug?

It sounds like one, Microsoft DNS related code is notoriously
bad at coping with errors, it usually works okay when everything
else is perfect...

Can you reproduce it locally?