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Hi Guys,<br />
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We have two old windows forward DNS servers in our DMZ for internet lookups. They are being decommissioned as we setup two new linux servers to perform this same duty. I need to know what is currently hitting those old windows servers so we can then change them to hit the linux boxes.<br />
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Ive looked at the logs for debug logging in DNS properties and found a 53 MB file but hard to understand. How can I tell which servers/IP's are trying to hit the windows DNS servers?<br />
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Cheers
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Hi Guys,

We have two old windows forward DNS servers in our DMZ for internet lookups. They are being decommissioned as we setup two new linux servers to perform this same duty. I need to know what is currently hitting those old windows servers so we can then change them to hit the linux boxes.

Ive looked at the logs for debug logging in DNS properties and found a 53 MB file but hard to understand. How can I tell which servers/IP's are trying to hit the windows DNS servers?

Cheers

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