Don't know why, but I was intrigued by this. A few links (nothing truly official) state that the limit is 50: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/e934252d-d31b-4f05-a61a-e0adf3a17abe
And then I found this reference to an issue with nslookup when you have 7 or more entries, where it only resolves 5: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818349 I'm wondering if this last item is what you're running into? -B From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS suffix search order list on W2K We've done some testing and it looks like 2000 has this limit. Even if we modify the registry directly. I'd really like to see some MS documentation or KB that talks about this limitation. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS suffix search order list on W2K Looks like the UI may actually enforce a limit of 6 but I don't see anywhere else that it won't read whatever you put in this registry setting: SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Tcpip\\Parameters SearchList It should be a comma delimited REG_SZ Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS suffix search order list on W2K Can anyone confirm this is limited to 5? I've looked but can't find any official documentation that states this. Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
