I get the following warning message constantly and I don't
know exactly what it means and what to do about it.

"The DNS server encountered an invalid domain name in a
packet from 192.112.36.4. The packet is rejected"

Thank You

You will get this occassionally from DHCP clients, especially VPN clients.
If it's "occassionally", you need not worry. If it's clogging your eventlog,
then that's something else. If "192.112.36.4" is foreign to your network,
the same still applies. Make sure you have the "secure against pollution"
enabled on your DNS server. I think it's already enable, but it doesn't hurt
to double-check.

--
Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
www.akomolafe.com
www.iyaburo.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday? -anon
"Floyd Hilman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:514301c3e4f9$de66e220$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I get the following warning message constantly and I don't
> know exactly what it means and what to do about it.
>
> "The DNS server encountered an invalid domain name in a
> packet from 192.112.36.4. The packet is rejected"
>
> Thank You

Disable Recursion. This is one of the root servers.

--
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server

"Deji Akomolafe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> You will get this occassionally from DHCP clients, especially VPN clients.
> If it's "occassionally", you need not worry. If it's clogging your
eventlog,
> then that's something else. If "192.112.36.4" is foreign to your network,
> the same still applies. Make sure you have the "secure against pollution"
> enabled on your DNS server. I think it's already enable, but it doesn't
hurt
> to double-check.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
> www.akomolafe.com
> www.iyaburo.com
> Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
> Yesterday? -anon
> "Floyd Hilman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:514301c3e4f9$de66e220$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I get the following warning message constantly and I don't
> > know exactly what it means and what to do about it.
> >
> > "The DNS server encountered an invalid domain name in a
> > packet from 192.112.36.4. The packet is rejected"
> >
> > Thank You
>
>

To add. If you disable, disable in the forwarders tab, not the advanced
options or forwarding will stop working. Not sure disabling root hints is
the answer. It may remove the message, but does not help figure out what
the issue is. Are we sending malformed requests to the root, are we getting
bad packets back? Is it a network device in the middle (i.e. firewall,
router, etc) that has mumbled up the name? I would NetMon to figure out
what is going on.

--
William Stacey, MVP

"Scott Harding - MS MVP" <scrockel@**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Disable Recursion. This is one of the root servers.
>
> --
> Scott Harding
> MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
> Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
>
> "Deji Akomolafe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > You will get this occassionally from DHCP clients, especially VPN
clients.
> > If it's "occassionally", you need not worry. If it's clogging your
> eventlog,
> > then that's something else. If "192.112.36.4" is foreign to your
network,
> > the same still applies. Make sure you have the "secure against
pollution"
> > enabled on your DNS server. I think it's already enable, but it doesn't
> hurt
> > to double-check.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
> > www.akomolafe.com
> > www.iyaburo.com
> > Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
> > Yesterday? -anon
> > "Floyd Hilman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:514301c3e4f9$de66e220$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I get the following warning message constantly and I don't
> > > know exactly what it means and what to do about it.
> > >
> > > "The DNS server encountered an invalid domain name in a
> > > packet from 192.112.36.4. The packet is rejected"
> > >
> > > Thank You
> >
> >
>
>