Win2k forgets Nameserver?
Yanek Korff
yanek at cigital.com
Mon Sep 24 14:03:27 UTC 2001
Have you tried ipconfig /registerdns from the Run Box? Sure beats
rebooting. This works for almost all our users experiencing this problem.
-Yanek.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sasso, John IT [mailto:JSasso at mvphealthcare.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: 'Yanek Korff'; 'bind-users at isc.org'
> Subject: RE: Win2k forgets Nameserver?
>
>
> I've seen this on a few of our Win2K desktops as well. Unlike your
> configuration, we are running BIND 4.9.4 on an NT server
> (we'll be moving to
> the latest rev of BIND on a Solaris 2.8 box). Nonetheless, the Win2K
> desktop will, for no reason, just "lose" its ability to
> resolve via DNS.
> The resolution has been to reboot the Win2K desktop.
>
> I'd also like to know how to resolve this annoying problem.
>
> --john
>
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Yanek Korff [mailto:yanek at cigital.com]
> | Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:45 AM
> | To: 'bind-users at isc.org'
> | Subject: Win2k forgets Nameserver?
> |
> |
> |
> | I'm guessing this is a Win2k problem and totally OT for
> this list, but
> | seeing as I'm running Bind 8.2.3-REL on a FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE
> | platform (yes,
> | yes, I know, upgrade now on both counts) I figured someone
> | here might have
> | an idea. Bind is configured with ISC-dhcpd V3.0b1pl13,
> | handing out IPs in
> | the 10.1. network and entering DNS information on a
> | host-request basis to
> | forward & rev zones.
> |
> | My Win2k workstations periodically "forget" how to resolve names.
> | Literally, one minute I'll be able to SSH/ping/telnet to
> | internal hosts, and
> | the next minute host lookup will fail. If I subsequently
> run ipconfig
> | /registerdns everything works fine for a while longer.
> |
> | 95% of my Win2k users are experiencing this problem.
> Anyone seen this
> | before?
> |
> | -Yanek.
> |
>
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