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Q. How can I disable the DNS management snap-in from being used remotely?
John Savill
February 15, 2010
1 Min Read
A. You can normally make remote connections to a DNS server using a dynamic remote procedure call (RPC) port allocation (ports 49152 to 65535). If you want to disable this remote ability, you can make a registry change and then stop and start the DNS service.
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetservicesDNSParameters.
From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD value.
Enter a name of RpcProtocol and press Enter.
Double-click the new value and set it to 4.
Click OK.
Restart the DNS Server service with the commands
net stop dnsnet start dnsRelated Reading:
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