grittyminder
IS-IT--Management
Greetings!
I have a silly question. Right now the local firewall is set only allow DNS queries from the internal network to the ISP's DNS servers (external DNS queries are being forwarded only, no DNS zone information is being sent as there is no need). I'm seeing dropped packets (UDP port 53) from a Windows 2003 DNS server in the firewall logs to DNS root hint servers (e.g. 198.41.0.4, 202.12.27.33, 128.8.10.90). I am assuming that if I delete all the name server entries in the root hint section of DNS the dropped packets will go away (is this a correct assumption?). My question is: if I were to delete the root hint entries would there be any unpleasant side effects? I just want to make sure...
I have a silly question. Right now the local firewall is set only allow DNS queries from the internal network to the ISP's DNS servers (external DNS queries are being forwarded only, no DNS zone information is being sent as there is no need). I'm seeing dropped packets (UDP port 53) from a Windows 2003 DNS server in the firewall logs to DNS root hint servers (e.g. 198.41.0.4, 202.12.27.33, 128.8.10.90). I am assuming that if I delete all the name server entries in the root hint section of DNS the dropped packets will go away (is this a correct assumption?). My question is: if I were to delete the root hint entries would there be any unpleasant side effects? I just want to make sure...