root-servers.net??

[dazz828]

Hi all,

I am not too familiar with this, maybe someone can help. In our Event Log we are getting a bunch of DNS errors as follows:

EventID: 5504
Source: DNS
The DNS server encountered an invalid domain name in a packet from 192.36.148.17. The packet is rejected.

There are a bunch of them, all with different IP addresses. When I do nslookups it shows h.root-servers.net, l.root-servers.net, k.root-servers.net, etc. There are a few of them.

What is X.root-servers.net?????

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Morsing]

x.root-server.net are the Top Level DNSs. Basically they have the beginning of all domains and these are the ones you ask if you want to query something that's higher up than your domain level.

I doubt that the root servers have a problem so it must be your DNS server that has a problem.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[dazz828]

Thanks for the info! I'll look into it...