Now this may be old news, but hey, it’s new to me.
I ran a DCDIAG /test:dns today and received an error
DNS server: 128.9.0.107 (b.root-servers.net.)
1 test failure on this DNS server
This is not a valid DNS server.
PTR record query for the 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. failed on the DNS server 128.9.0.107
Well it would appear that way back in 2004 the B Root Server had a change of IP Address as advised here. The old address was valid for some time but has since been de-commissioned, although I don’t know when exactly.
It’s no biggie, the other servers respond, everything runs as normal. It probably results in a touch more Internet traffic, but with all the Paris Hilton upskirt bandwidth I doubt it matters that much.
My question is, surely, this, of all the Critical Updates MS pushes out with WSUS, would be worthy of a Microsoft Update? Three years, but not as urgent as the “Critical” Windows Genuine Advantage. I guess it’s not critical for their bottom line.
In the meantime I think I’ll update some Root Server lists.