It does DNS lookup cache'ing. Helps speed up looks ups, makes decisions on using WINS or whatever. It is also responsible for updating the machines records in DNS and WINS. But if your DHCP server does that for everything I doubt you will see much happen.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727035.aspx ________________________________________ From: Jim Dandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 5:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vista DNS Client Service Does anyone know what the Vista DNS Client Service does? I've had a number of vista computer give an error The DNS Client service has stopped working In my experience this error only occurs if the computer is running Vista SP1 and is a member of a domain. I was talking to someone the other day who was experiencing the same problem. He said they just turn the DNS client service off. I did it and my problem went away and no other problems have surfaced yet. I was a bit surprised. Being a DNS client seems like it's pretty important! Obviously this must not be required to resolve host names or my computer wouldn't be working very well. So, what's the DNS Client service do? Thanks for your help. Curt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
