Microsoft KB Archive/311736

= Reoccurring WAN traffic every five minutes may cause high line costs =

Article ID: 311736

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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This article was previously published under Q311736



SYMPTOMS
If you have a trust across a wide-area network (WAN) line, you may notice that the WAN line is used every five minutes. If you trace the traffic, you see remote procedure call (RPC) requests that contain an &quot;Authenticated Users&quot; string in the data portion. If you perform a full trace, including the connection establishment, you see that the RPC requests go to the LSASRV pipe. This behavior occurs if you are running a Windows 2000-based forest with multiple domains with a non-English version of Windows 2000. You also have Domain Name System (DNS) servers running in each of the domains.



CAUSE
The DNS server checks the security settings on Active Directory objects and builds a security identifier (SID) object for the &quot;Authenticated Users&quot; account. Because this special group name is translated in localized versions of Windows 2000, it is not found in the local built-in database and is forwarded to all the trusted domains.



Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to obtain the latest Windows 2000 service pack

Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Windows 2000 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

File information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.   Date         Time   Version        Size     File name -  07-Nov-2001  02:33  5.0.2195.4606  324,368  Dns.exe



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For more information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 Use QChain.exe to install multiple hotfixes with one reboot

For more information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp3fix kbqfe kbhotfixserver KB311736

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