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 Post subject: Windows DNS Event ID 5501 - DNS Server Service
PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:22 am 
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I'm getting lots of message like this in my Event Log:

The DNS server encountered a bad packet from x.x.x.x. Packet processing leads beyond packet length. The event data contains the DNS packet.

Is this anything to worry about? If so what should I do?


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 Post subject: Re: Windows DNS Event ID 5501 - DNS Server Service
PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:50 pm 
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These articles may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832223

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198757



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 Post subject: Re: Windows DNS Event ID 5501 - DNS Server Service
PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:35 pm 
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This may also be of interest: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee783616(WS.10).aspx


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