How to stop ActiveDirectory Requests on DNS Server ?

Barry Finkel b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Mon Nov 25 15:44:26 UTC 2002


Xavier <xfiquet_N0_SPAM at yahoo.fr> wrote:

>I'm using a Bind 8.3.1 DNS SERVER on Solaris 2.8 Box.
>
>I have Sniffed some DNS traffic and i'm seeing lot's of requests :
>
>Standard query SRV _ldap._tcp.foo.msdcs.FooAgain
>Standard query SRV _ldap._tcp.c4ac1ec-5c9c1.domains._msdcds.FooAgainAgain
>Standard query SRV _kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs.FooAgainAgain
>
>FooAgain, FooAgain and FooAgainAgain are LOCAL, web site, computer hostname 
>;etc..
>
>I'm looking for a technical solution that disable my dns server to look up 
>these request on Root Servers.
>Maybe to drop these requests or make them resolved to 127.0.0.1.

Is your DNS server a master or slave for the zone in question?  If so,
then why do you want to block valid W2k queries to your nameserver?
W2k puts SRV records into DNS so that W2k clients can query those SRV
records to locate services that the clients need to use.

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