First place to look is your lmhosts file.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:22, Kevan Dickinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have followed the article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318803 and
> made the changes to the registry so that resolved DNS names are not
> cached on the server.  If I do a ipconfig /displaydns all I see are
> entries for localhost.
>
> If I ping the FQDN I get the correct resolved address.
> If I ping just the netbios name of the machine I get the wrong IP
> address returned.
>
> I have checked my WINS server and DNS servers and they have recorded the
> correct IP address of my laptop connected over the VPN.
>
> What else on the server could be caching the Netbios name of my laptop.
> I did a nbtstat -R but that made no difference.
>
> Really looking for help on this if you or anyone else have anything else
> to suggest.
>
> Kevan Dickinson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steph Balog [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 28 February 2009 11:38
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: DNS / WINS Issue?
>
> Ahhh, (i see say the blind man as he tripped over is cane and saw) ;-)
> You issue isnt really sql at all, nor is it dns so much. You are a
> victim of one of MS's better TCP/IP stack designs (no really, it is a
> better design).
> MS did a great thing is the use of caches when it does its network
> lookups, it ALWAYS looks at the cache first. Simply flushing the DNS
> cache won't get rid of your issue, you need to tell those clients not to
> keep that info cached for so long. You can first try to stop your
> dnscache doing a net stop dnscache and then try to recreate your
> problem. You need your dns client running though so you will need to
> hack the registry of the client and set down the maxpositive TTL and
> maxmegtive TTL (time to live) values. Default for positive is like a day
> (measured in seconds) and default value for negative reponse is 15 mins.
> All that can be found here
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318803
>
> Good luck!
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