Article ID: 160508
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q160508
SYMPTOMS
Zone transfers take place, even when no data has been changed on the primary Domain Name System (DNS).
CAUSE
The SOA serial number may be inadvertently incremented, causing unnecessary notifies to secondaries, which cause unnecessary zone transfers.
RESOLUTION
Apply Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2 or later.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
S E R V P A C K
Additional query words: prodnt
Keywords: kbnetwork KB160508
