How can I stop Windows DNS server properties settings from changing by themselves?

When I open the DNS console in Administrative tools, I keep finding a couple of problems which keep on reappearing by themselves, and I want to stop them from happening.

One of the DNS servers has two network interfaces, and it should only be listening for requests on of them, and I get errors in the Event Log otherwise. But when right clicking one DNS server and selecting Properties, I can see on the Interfaces tab that 'All IP addresses' is selected. If I Change it to 'Only the following IP addresses:' and deleselect the WAN addess, I will find it reslected when I next check it after a couple of days.

In the other DNS server's Properties, on the Forwarders tab, there should only be two forwarder addresses. However, the address for the router keeps in appearing. This router has the DNS server as its forwarder. There shouldn't be anything using the router's DNS forwarders for DNS other than the router itself, but this surely is causing a loop.

How do I get these properties on both DNS servers to stick?


Event ID 410 seems to indicate that the DNS server looks at the list of interfaces that it is allowed to respond to requests on and that it does not contain an IP address that is one of its own. It seems to be saying that when it finds itself in that state, it automatically sets itself back to "All IP addresses," which is the behavior you report.

Perhaps your DNS server is set to use DHCP for its IP address(es) and it is getting changed. Changing it to static IP addressing might fix the issue.

Perhaps it is set to static IP addressing and the address is intentionally being changed.