Re: Win2k Machine contacting Root Server???

[Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov>]

> I recently ran "netstat" on my personal laptop (running Win2k) and was 
> shocked to see that it had been making TCP connections to the root servers 
> (to their domain port). I know that some DNS queries are performed using TCP, 
> but I find it somewhat disturbing that the root servers were involved.
>
> I did a little googling and found a few remarks that Win2k machines sometimes 
> do this...   But mine has the lastest updates....

We've seen it when they couldn't reverse lookup their address.