Jake and Roderick,
With respect to DNS usage by Windows, it would
appear that Windows has a mechanism for
using DNS as part of the NETBIOS Name resolution.
If you go on your Win Machines and run WINIPCFG,
and go under MORE INFO, there is an ENABLE for
NETBIOS Resolution via DNS. Looking through
the Microsoft References, I have yet found a
way to turn this OFF, or how it is getting enabled.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: Roderick A. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jake Colman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jeffrey Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: diald and netbeui
> On 18 Nov 1999, Jake Colman wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "JH" == Jeffrey Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > JH> You can't suppress this Name Server Request via DIALD, because
this
> > JH> would cause the Name Service Request you want to be inhibited.
> >
> > But why should the windows box be generating a Name Sever request at
all? If
> > I have a hosts file and an lmhosts file containing the names of all the
nodes
> > on my home network, what could it possibly be looking for? I understand
that
> > it might want to generate packets in order to its browsing and
broadcasting
> > but why a name server packet?
>
> Mysterious indeed are the ways of Microsoft programmers.
>
> Rod
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