> Read inline please.
>
> In news:D412384F-4888-4368-BE74-45DA2C3B8A92[ at ]microsoft.com,
> minnow <minnow[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> > Whenever I ping a non-existent machine name on my network (ping
> > computer2000) I get the following response 216.34.131.135. This is an
> > external IP (obviously) and is not one of my DNS forwarders. I have a
> > surf control tool that logs all web access to the internet. This same
> > IP address comes up as being accessed often even on weekends when
> > nobody is in the office. Has my DNS system/ server been hacked? I
> > have run anti-spyware programs on every machine in the place but this
> > only reduces the number of hits to this IP. Any suggestions would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> Let me take a guess, (since that's all I can do with the information you
> given) your internal domain name is a third, fourth or lower level of a
> Public Top Level domain. Examples, home.domain.com or domain.co.uk?
>
> The default behavior of the DNS Client in Windows adds the Primary DNS
> suffix and its parent suffixes to the DNS Suffix search list, (check your
> ipconfig /all) Depending on the Primary DNS suffix you could have several
> parent suffixes added to the DNS suffix search list, which is appended to
> all non-fully-qualified DNS lookups by the client. KEEP IN MIND, a DNS query
> is not fully qualified unless it also includes the DNS Root (A dot ".")
> www.microsoft.com is not fully qualified while www.microsoft.com. is. If
> your DNS server does not have a zone for each of these suffixes, it forwards
> these queries, and some public DNS providers use wildcard records, and
> apparently, one of the parent domains in your DNS suffix search list has
> such a wildcard record.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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