Windows 10: Suspicious DNS Rule.

Hello.

I was checking Windows Firewall and it came to my attention that, for these past few weeks, I have been seeing a suspicious set of rules that keep reappearing in my inbound rule set.


These rules do not go away when I delete them and sometimes more of them appear. I have inbound traffic blocked to my home devices with a physical firewall but I keep seeing these set of rules no matter how many times I have tried to delete them. They open port 52 on both TCP and UDP and apply to no specific program nor I know what service or program are creating them.

Any idea what these could be or what is creating them?





I would appreciate any help with this matter.

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WIN10 Firewall Rules - found 70 different DNS Forwarding Rules? - VIRUS or?

Hello,

while investigating a problem in Windows 10 - which is now solved and solution is unrelated to this question -

I checked the list of Exceptions in the Windows Firewall.

Among the many entries there are

70 different

DNS Forwarding Rule - TCP - xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-0 Private ON Public ON

(or UDP)

Does anyone know how these Rules come about and what purpose they serve?

Could this be some malware redirecting web-addresses?

Or could it be related to the Windows-Insider Program? (no answer on this there).

Regards,

Andreas

 

DNS problems with router

A couple suggestions I have for you:

Update the firmware on the router. Maybe it's getting into a badstate, and a firmware update might fix it. Or if you're comfortable with it, install a custom firmware like dd-wrt. Just make sure its supported on your router first.

Change your DNS to: 8.8.8.8, 4.2.2.1. Might help.

If none of these work, maybe statically set your DNS on your PS3/PC to the IPs you listed, taking the router out of the lookup procedure.

Last option, is look for a new router.

 

dns probe finished no internet


Hi Oxide,

After some trial-and-error testing of all suggested fixes, which I found over the internet, here’re what worked for me to solve "DNS Probe Finished No Internet" issue and might work for you as well.

Method 1: Change Default DNS Address to Open DNS

Here all you have to do is change your default automatically obtained DNS server addresses to open DNS or Google DNS. To do this, follow below mentioned steps:

Step 1: Right click on Network icon located in Windows Task Bar Menu.

Step 2: Click on ‘Open Network and Sharing Center.’





Step 3: Click on Local Area Connection with whom who are presently connected and click onProperties.

Step 4: Select ‘Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)’ and click on Properties.

Step 5: Now in newly opened windows, select the radio button that reads ‘Use the following DNS server address:’

Step 6: Now in the ‘Preferred DNS Server’ box type in 208.67.222.222 and in ‘Alternate DNS Server’ type in 208.67.220.220.

Step 7: Now check the box that says ‘Validate settings upon exit’ and then click on OK. That’s it.