Windows 2000 DNS logging

[Keith Meidling]

I am having problems getting Windows 2000 DNS to log queries.

This DNS server is one of several AD controllers. I have a requirement
to log dns queries from the clients.

I have the 'Query' 'Notify' and 'Update' checked in the Logging tab of
the DNS server properties.

In the \WINNT\System32\dns there is a dns.log, but nothing is being
written to it.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks

Keith

 

[Herb Martin]

This DNS server is one of several AD controllers. I have a requirement

to log dns queries from the clients.

I have the 'Query' 'Notify' and 'Update' checked in the Logging tab of
the DNS server properties.

In the \WINNT\System32\dns there is a dns.log, but nothing is being
written to it.

Is there something I'm missing?

[I wrote the following before remember that this is not
included in Win2000 DNS, but only in Win2003 so I am
not sure how you set what you did above. Perhaps you are
using Win2003 or the discussion below will help anyway...]

Win2003:
Go back and look at the debug logging tab and make sure
you have AT LEAST one item from each of the four option
sets checked.

Like: inbound queries udp requests
(That pretty much covers "log DNS queries FROM clients" as
most all of those will be UDP -- rare TCP requests may originate
from clients however.)