[159730] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intermittent incorrect DNS resolution?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jan 18 17:47:16 2013
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:46:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <50F9CF94.9020409@abellohome.net>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vinny Abello" <vinny@abellohome.net>
> Just an FYI...
>
> Every version of Windows since Windows 2000 (sans Windows Me) has had
> the DNS Client service which maintained this caching function. This
> was by design due to the massive dependency on DNS resolution which
> Active Directory has had since its creation. It greatly reduced the
> amount of repetitive lookups required thereby speeding up AD based
> functions and lessening the load on DNS servers. It still exists today
> up through Windows 8. You can disable the service, but it will also
> break DDNS updates unless your DHCP server registers hostnames on
> behalf of your clients.
Microsoft broke the Internet just to make their internal networking
work properly?
I'm shocked; *shocked* I tell... yes, just put the money right over there;
*shocked* I say.
You can't imagine how much time that lost me in diagnoses when it first
came out, until we finally located it somewhere on the Internet.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
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