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I agree, root hints were extremely unreliable and failed be after i inputted them in manually. &nbsp;I've now used forwarders to direct traffic to 8.8.8.8 and this resolved all of my issues. &nbsp;But.... usual DNS best practice indicates that root hints are the way to go?
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I agree, root hints were extremely unreliable and failed be after i inputted them in manually.  I've now used forwarders to direct traffic to 8.8.8.8 and this resolved all of my issues.  But.... usual DNS best practice indicates that root hints are the way to go?

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Hi All, we recently cut over to our Windows DNS servers and for some reason, the root hints are not keeping their IPv4 addresses. &nbsp;Is there a reason why they continue to disappear, and the IPv6 addresses remain?
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Hi All, we recently cut over to our Windows DNS servers and for some reason, the root hints are not keeping their IPv4 addresses.  Is there a reason why they continue to disappear, and the IPv6 addresses remain?

Windows Server 2016 - Root Hints are not keeping their IPv4 addresses

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