EVENT ID 5509 – MS WINDOWS DNS
Our Win2K DNS server gets the following error message and locks up and we have to restart the DNS Server for it begin working properly again.
Event ID 5509
The DNS Server encountered an invalid DNS update message from 192.168.1.5 (DNS Server, DC IP Address) The packet was reject. Can anyone steer me in the right direction to resolve this?
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ASKED:
April 20, 2005 1:28 PM
UPDATED:
April 20, 2005 8:12 PM
Answer Wiki:
Most likely issue is that there is a DNS name which contains characters no longer allowed.
What is/are allowed are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, - and _
Older implementations of DNS allowed non-RFC compliant characters.
Let us know what happened,
Bob
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Make sure the computer name does not have a any symbols in it (ie. #, *, @) if it does remove the signes and just make it a normal name (ie. comp1)
Thanks for the responses all; but our DNS Server does not have any characters in it so is there something else i could look at? I cannot find any KB’s from Microsoft does anyone have any links?
Did you do a dump (zone transfer, technically ls -d) of the zone files, both forward and reverse?
If so, you can email them to me privately (Assuming nothing sensitive in them), and I’ll take a quick look.
Bob
check the computer name on the machine 192.168.1.5, not the server….
check the computer name on the machine 192.168.1.5, not the server….
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3BEN-US%3Bq288176
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288176
CAUSE
This issue can occur if you are using a computer that is running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows 98 Second Edition, and the computer name includes special characters, such as a number sign (#), an ampersand (@), or a dollar sign ($). You can use the characters in computer names when you use Windows 95 and Windows 98, but Windows 2000 DNS only supports the en dash character (-) and the underscore character (_), by default. If your computer name includes a different special character, the DNS server rejects the name registration in DNS.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, use either of the following methods: ? Find the computer name that has the unaccepted special character, and then change the name.
NOTE: This method is recommended.
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Configure DNS so that it allows all names:
1. Start the DNS snap-in on the server.
2. Right-click the server and click Properties.
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then enter All Names in the Name Checking box.