Win2k forgets Nameserver?

[Sasso, John IT]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Danny Mayer [mailto:mayer at gis.net]
| Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:38 PM
| To: Sasso, John IT; 'Michael Kjorling'; BIND-Users
| Subject: RE: Win2k forgets Nameserver?
| 
| 
| At 12:01 PM 9/24/01, Sasso, John   IT wrote:
| 
| >Mike,
| >
| >Not sure about Dan's case, but in our case we have only one 
| DNS nameserver
| >that all desktops refer to.
| 
| That's a really bad idea.  You should always have at least 2 
| nameservers and
| both be listed in each of the desktops' IP settings. If you 
| lose your single
| nameserver, because of disk crash, bad hardware, maintenance, 
| etc. you have
| no name resolution at all.
| 
Yes, I know, Mike.  I came on board here recently and am flabbergasted by
the DNS setup here.  
Since I've been delegated responsibility for DNS, I am in the works of
revamping our DNS
infrastructure.  I don't even like the idea of having a Windoze system as a
primary nameserver.


| >   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.
| 
| Are they configured with more than one nameserver?
| 
|          Danny
| 

Hmmm, now that I'm looking at the output of ipconfig on my desktop, it shows
the first DNS nameserver as 
our internal one, and two others after it that are primary for our external
zone (w/ no knowledge of our internal zone).  

But in the event that my Win2k desktop loses DNS resolution, why is it that
other systems that refer to the same internal nameserver are still able to
do name resolution?

--john