Hello Michael, thanks for your reply. Sorry for the confusion. The current behaviour is unintentional in my point of view: If default policy is set to DROP, connections from GREEN and BLUE to RED are forbidden by default, but not from ORANGE to RED. As far as I know, this is not even documented. Thereof, I suggest to change behaviour to DROP, too. @All: Opinions? Thanks, and best regards, Peter Müller -- Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it recieves a response to a DNS query that was never made. Fix Information: Run your DNS service on a different platform. -- bugtraq