Question : Checking what computer on the LAN is performing a Specific DNS query.

I have a network with two Public IP's and two firewalls. I use OpenDNS as my forwarders. I can see that from site #1 I have 10,000 DNS requests a day for 5  AOL Servers. I'm guessing AIM is on the network.

All computers are joined to the domain, and I ran LAN Guard and did a software Audit. No copies of AOL AIM are anywhere to be found. So my question is, how can I see what IP address is making all these DNS requests?

Do I have to use a packet sniffer? Is there another easier way of doing this?

Answer : Checking what computer on the LAN is performing a Specific DNS query.

No need for a packet sniffer yet. Open the properties of the DNS server, go to the "Debug Logging" tab, enable "Log packets for debugging".
You only need to check
- Incoming
- UDP
- Queries/Transfers
- Requests
Set a log file on a disk with enough space, click "Apply".
Leave it running for a bit (a minute should be plenty ...), then disable logging again.
Open the log file, search for "aol(3)com(0)"; you'll find the client IP(s) in the same line(s).
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