Microsoft DNS as forwarder to a UNIX 8.2.3REL DNS server, what's happening?

[Danny Mayer]

    NT4's DNS is not supported by anyone, not even Microsoft.  If you have
a problem with it contact Microsoft.  If you were running BIND 8.2.3 for NT
on your NT 4.0 system, then this list could provide answers.

        Danny

HAG.Keijzer at mindef.nl wrote:

> Gentle people,
>
> Walked today into a real weird thing.
>
> We have NT 4.0 SP4 setup as DNS forwarders to our DNS nameservers running on
> UNIX.
>
> everthing is working, cache is slowly filling, until I noticed something
> weird.
>
> the UNIX dns server are rootnameservers (since we're not connected to the
> net) and serve 10.in-addr.arpa, domain1.nl  and zone1.domain1.nl.  UNOX1 is
> SOA for all this   (db.domain, db.zone1, and reverse lookup in db.10.
>
> The microsoft DNS manager is showing us the following though
>
> <machine>
>     |
>     +-- Cache
>            |
>            + arpa
>            |
>            + nl
>              |
>              + domain1
>                  |
>                  + zone1
>                      |
>                      + unox1
>
> Why does the DNS on microsoft think unox1 is a zone?
> Needless to say I tried to dig unox1.zone1.domain1.nl which didn't return
> any answers.
> Also in the in-addr arpa, lots of weird things going on, we see a
> 0.in-addr.arpa, a 255.in-addr.arpa (not hosted on the UNOX1)
> and even worse it thinks that under 10-inaddr.arpa there is another 10 zone,
> which if we click it gives a red cross saying connection error.
>
> I'm not really a fan of Microsoft, and certainly have problems with the way
> they deal with DNS, but this is something which puts me totally in the blue
>
> Any experience from anybody with this?
>
> Kind Regards / Met vriendelijke Groet,
>
> Gody Keijzer
>
> Windows95: <win-doz-nin-te-fiv> n.
> 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit
> operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2
> bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.