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Reverse dns lookups for localhost

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northstardave

northstardave

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Jan 9, 2003
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Hi.
On a Win2K pro box is it normal for the machine to query the dns servers for the reverse localhost (1.0.0.127.in-addre.arpa)?

From watching some packet captures I realized that my workstation is sending these requests out. Shouldn't those be resolved internally by the TCP/IP stack?

The most troubling thing is that it appears that my DNS servers seem to be giving out referrals to other DNS servers that are across the WAN & so these little localhost lookups are eating my WAN bandwidth.

Thanks.
 
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