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Re: Intermittent incorrect DNS resolution?


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:46:09 -0500 (EST)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vinny Abello" <vinny () abellohome net>

Just an FYI...

Every version of Windows since Windows 2000 (sans Windows Me) has had
the DNS Client service which maintained this caching function. This
was by design due to the massive dependency on DNS resolution which
Active Directory has had since its creation. It greatly reduced the
amount of repetitive lookups required thereby speeding up AD based
functions and lessening the load on DNS servers. It still exists today
up through Windows 8. You can disable the service, but it will also
break DDNS updates unless your DHCP server registers hostnames on
behalf of your clients.

Microsoft broke the Internet just to make their internal networking
work properly?

I'm shocked; *shocked* I tell... yes, just put the money right over there;
*shocked* I say.

You can't imagine how much time that lost me in diagnoses when it first
came out, until we finally located it somewhere on the Internet.

Cheers,
-- jra
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