Can’t find server name for address x.x.x.x: Non-existent domain

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If you ran into this error with your DNS server, then most likely you forgot to setup the PRT entry for the DNS server.

“Can’t find server name for address w.x.y.z: Non-existent domain”

Once I added back the PRT to the DNS server, the error went away and DNS isn’t timing out no more.

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