On 25/05/06, Marc Krochmal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This is a known issue with the Bonjour mDNS resolver plugin for
Windows that we probably can't fix.  The way the Windows NSP
architecture works is that when a name lookup is requested, Windows
passes the name to all the plugins so they can take action as
necessary.  In the case of dot-local name lookups, the mDNS plugin
gets called which issues the mDNS query and it usually gets the
response within a few milliseconds, and then it passes its results
back up to Windows.  However, Windows doesn't pass these results back
to the client application until the Windows built-in DNS resolver has
timed out, which normally takes around 2 seconds.

So unfortunately, I don't know of any way to get around this, but now
that you mention it, I wonder if this delay is caused by NetBIOS
queries, and not by DNS queries.


Thanks for that Marc.

I have confirmed that disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP stops windows from
issuing the NBNS queries, and wait time for the page refresh drops
from the approx. 3 secs to around 1sec.

I guess mac osx naturally doesn't implement a NetBIOS name server
either and therefore has the same issue when working with windows?
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