DNS Search Order

Jeff Stevens jstevens at vnet.ibm.com
Mon Feb 24 19:41:52 UTC 2003


I see both a DHCP Client and DNS Client service in WinXP.  What service
does the DNS client provide that isn't supplied by DHCP?  I guess I
can't find a good description of the two services...

Cricket Liu wrote:

 >> Most Linux resolvers are based on BIND, which doesn't dynamically
 >> reorder name servers.  Windows 2000 and newer resolvers, however,
 >> can reorder name servers if the DNS Client service is running.

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Jeffrey Stevens




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