Doing some experimentation, and following the suggestion of removing the
offending zone and recreating it, it finally determined that the existence of
41+ PTR records for a single IP address was causing DNS Manager to display a
"Connection Error" and a red "X"
By keeping the number of PTR records for that IP address below 41, I am now able
to open the zone without any problem all of the time.
I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but I was able to modify the
reverse-lookup zone by:
1) deleting the zone from DNS Manager
2) making whatever changes I desired to the 135.157.208.in-addr.arpa.dns file in
\WINNT\System32\DNS
3) recreating the zone.
Thanks for the help, for this and past issues.
Regards,
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Bomersbach <terryb@the-cia.net>
To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Date: Saturday, August 14, 1999 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [NTISP] Red "X" in DNS Manager ?
>Usually down in the bottom right corner it will give you an indicator on why
>the zone file could not be loaded. What I do is remove the offending zone
>file from the registry and then recreate it.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Greene <adam@webjogger.net>
>To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
>Date: Saturday, August 14, 1999 9:35 AM
>Subject: [NTISP] Red "X" in DNS Manager ?
>
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Has anyone ever experienced the following:
>>
>>(Windows NT 4.0 SP 3)
>>
>>In DNS Manager, when I double-click on 135.157.208.in-addr.arpa (the
>>reverse-lookup zone for my Class C), a red "X" appears on top of the
>folder, and
>>only the first two records (an NS record and the SOA record) appear in the
>big
>>white "Zone Info" section on the right side of the screen.
>>
>>When I go into the 135.157.208.in-addr.arpa.dns file in the
>Winnt\System32\DNS
>>folder, everything looks fine. I see all of the hundreds of PTR records
>there,
>>for example.
>>
>>I've tried stopping and restarting the "Microsoft DNS Server" service, but
>it
>>makes no difference. The .dns file appears to get updated correctly, but I
>just
>>can't access it through DNS Manager.
>>
>>Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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