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It sounds like someone outside your network is trying to remote in to your DNS server. &nbsp;One way to quell this would be to lock down the RDP ports at your firewall.
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It sounds like someone outside your network is trying to remote in to your DNS server.  One way to quell this would be to lock down the RDP ports at your firewall.

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the server is not behind a firewall.. will changing the default 3389 to something else help ?<br />
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the server is not behind a firewall.. will changing the default 3389 to something else help ?
 

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hi, just recently we started getting the following error on win2003 server:<br />
Remote session from client name a exceeded the maximum allowed failed logon attempts. The session was forcibly terminated. EventID 1012. this is on a DNS server on the public side - how can I isolate this problem ?
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hi, just recently we started getting the following error on win2003 server:
Remote session from client name a exceeded the maximum allowed failed logon attempts. The session was forcibly terminated. EventID 1012. this is on a DNS server on the public side - how can I isolate this problem ?

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