Article ID: 160518
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q160518
SYMPTOMS
Your Domain Name System (DNS) service will not start, and it causes an access violation (AV) in DNS Manager.
CAUSE
Zone files that are exact multiples of 4 KB in length will cause an access violation in DNS Manager.
RESOLUTION
As a temporary workaround, you can add a comment to your zone file so that its size is not a multiple of 4 KB.
To permanently fix this problem, 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 KB160518
