Win2k forgets Nameserver?

[Sasso, John IT]

Mike,

Not sure about Dan's case, but in our case we have only one DNS nameserver
that all desktops refer to.  It has knowledge of our internal namespace.  In
the event that name resolution fails on a Win2K desktop, other desktops that
refer to the same nameserver (Win95, NT, and UNIX desktops) are still able
to successfully do name resolution.

-j

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Michael Kjorling [mailto:michael at kjorling.com]
| Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:42 AM
| To: BIND-Users
| Subject: RE: Win2k forgets Nameserver?
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| Are you using two name servers, of which one does not know about the
| internal namespace? If the primary DNS server fails, Win2000 will
| revert to the secondary (as named in TCP/IP properties) until that one
| fails (at which time it will switch back) or a reboot.
| 
| If one of the name servers do not know about the internal namespace,
| it could explain why this is happening.
| 
| 
| Michael Kjörling
| 
| 
| On Sep 24 2001 07:26 -0800, Daniel Foote wrote:
| 
| > I too have noticed this problem.  It only seems to affect 
| my ability to
| > access our intranet servers and an "ipconfig /all" looks entirely
| > normal--DNS Servers are all present and access to the 
| outside world has no
| > problem.  Once I run "ipconfig /renew", all is OK again.  
| (Running WinTooKy
| > with lastest SP).
| >
| >
| > Just another example of the reliability of Microsoft 
| products...reliably
| > annoying, frustrating and time consuming.
| >
| > -Dan
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