If you look up "the magic of glue records" (more likely just "glue records")
on support.microsoft.com, you'll find the answer.... and a hotfix!
Apparently, it only affects some people, but I have never seen a MS DNS
server behave correctly after an SP4 install.
Rgds,
James.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Hillman [SMTP:admin-maillist@talstar.com]
> Sent: 25 July 1999 22:20
> To: ntisp@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: [NTISP] MS DNS Probs
>
> From: Greg White <GWhite@bctelco.com>
> > I have three NT4 SP4 machines. One runs Software.com Bind for NT 4.9.5
> and
> > the other two run MS DNS. Can anyone tell me why neither of the MS DNS
> > machines will do a lookup on www.usps.gov, while the Bind Machine will
> > happily do it? Bind is a fresh install, so there are no cached lookups.
> I
> > installed it because I have been getting complaints from customers about
> not
> > being able to get to numerous websites.
>
> I ran into this problem a couple of years ago and pulled a little stunt to
> fix it--haven't had a problem with it since. DNS lost its cached records
> for the root-servers and could no longer find them to do lookups.
>
> Go into your DNS Admin and create a new primary zone called "root-servers"
> and add the following A and NS records (this is a couple years old, so you
> may want to make sure that the IP addresses associated with the A records
> are still correct):
>
> root-servers.net. NS a.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS b.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS c.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS d.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS e.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS f.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS g.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS h.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS i.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS j.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS k.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS l.root-servers.net
> root-servers.net. NS m.root-servers.net
> a A 198.41.0.4
> b A 128.9.0.107
> c A 192.33.4.12
> d A 128.8.10.90
> e A 192.203.230.10
> f A 192.5.5.241
> g A 192.112.36.4
> h A 128.63.2.53
> i A 192.36.148.17
> j A 198.41.0.10
> k A 193.0.14.129
> l A 198.32.64.12
> m A 202.12.27.33
>
> Josh Hillman
> hillman@talstar.com
>
>
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