Win2k forgets Nameserver?

[Yanek Korff]

Ditto here.  One internal-namespace-aware internal name server.  I do have
one user who does not seem to have this problem.  I cannot reproduce this on
other systems, however, even with identical network settings.

-Yanek.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sasso, John IT [mailto:JSasso at mvphealthcare.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:01 PM
> To: 'Michael Kjorling'; BIND-Users
> Subject: RE: Win2k forgets Nameserver?
> 
> 
> 
> 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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