Strange DNS lookup behavio

[Barry Finkel]

<Jon at nowhere.com> wrote:

>Here's a summary: when I attempt to ping a machine local to my network it
>fails to resolve the hostname on occasion.  Restarting the DNS server on
>the local network fixes the problem.  My machine is running Win2KSP2, as
>is the DNS server.  The DNS Server is that supplied with Win2K Server.

>My questions are:
>
>1. Why is my Win2K machine querying for an MX record when I would expect
>it to ask for an A record?  
>
>2. Why is the DNS server responding to the MX record query with a "server
>failure" message?
>
>3. Why does restarting the DNS server change the behavior of my machine's
>DNS queries?

As your machines are W2k, I believe that you will have to ask MS why
their code is behaving as you observe.  This newsgroup has knowledge
of ISC BIND, but we have no knowledge as to the internals of the MS
W2k DNS Server, which is MS-proprietary code.
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