Win2k forgets Nameserver?

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Mon Sep 24 21:07:33 UTC 2001


"Sasso, John IT" wrote:
> 
> 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?

Presumably your box placed DNS requests when the server was
busy/rebooting. Some Microsoft clients then switch to the second
server until it stops working. I thought Windows 2000 did
something even more involved, but the behaviour described would
be consistent with the Windows NT4 behaviour.


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