On Friday 03 January 2003 08:52 am, you wrote: > > The Win2K box is trying to find the domain-name from your DNS > > server since you have NOT entered one manually (like most of us do). > > Actually its trying to do a reverse lookup on 192.168.1.254, but it failed.
Yes, to pull a dns suffix so that the workstation can "create" a FQDN. > > Win2K is attempting to figure out what your domain-name by DNS records > > on the internet and broadcast, forcing you to wait until it fails before > > resolving any DNS information requested by the user (the lag). > > Actually, the "broadcast" is the netbios node type. i.e. How does this W2K > system announce its MS workgroup/domain affiliation on the network... > broadcast or WINS (Network Neighborhood stuff). This has nothing to do with > DNS. True, according to the existing DNS and WINS rfc's. However, M$ has combined/overlapped these services in Win2k/XP. Or possibly I am just out of my mind...... many admins have run into similar problems with legacy M$ networks when we "just" added a couple of Win2k workstations to the existing network. Some of the problems have been: failure for Win2k shares to show to legacy OS boxes and information transfer at snail speed. These problems were noted as a problem due to the "lack" of the upgraded DNS/ WINS implementation by M$ techs on the legacy boxes and it was suggested that we upgrade all machines to Win2K Pro/Server to avoid these problems. We buy Mac workstations instead now.....much nicer all around! ;-) > > If you used DHCP to receive an ip address (per default setup), this > > information would be received via the DHCP lease. > > > > You will have this problem EVERY reboot until you either use > > DHCP on the Win2k client or enter a domain-name (anything > > basically) in the IP setup on the Win2k machine. > > Although I don't disagree with the above, the DNS suffix is typically > used/set in the connection specific part of ipconfig. i.e. Each interface > on W2K can have a DNS suffix. Agreed. > Also, this is my personal preference, not a recommended policy. But I > disable W2K's caching server. This fricken thing has caused me more greif > than I care to mention. Try and tell a regular how user to flush the cache. > That will go over real well... I'll have to try that..... personally, I loved the move to Mac's..... I've quickly learned to enjoy PPC over Intel and avoid the M$ problems that I had. ~Lynn Avants ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
