Re: How is DNS resolution working?
From: Ohaya (Ohaya_at_NO_SPAM.cox.net)
Date: 02/25/04
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:00:52 -0500
"Ohaya" <Ohaya@NO_SPAM.cox.net> wrote in message
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> "Doug Sherman [MVP]" <dsherman@nospamtampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > The ping command does not depend on DNS. It can use any TCP/IP based
name
> > resolution, including NetBIOS, hosts files, lmhost files, etc.
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> Doug,
>
> Apologies if this is a dumb question, but would we have had to
specifically
> configure the IP address for a WINS server for NetBIOS resolution to be
> working on machine A?
>
> I know that we don't have anything in the hosts or lmhosts files on
machine
> A, and I know they put in the IP address of machine B as in the settings
for
> the DNS in network properties.
>
> Jim
Hi,
I have to stop doing this, but I need to correct my post above.
What I meant to ask was wouldn't we have had to specifically configure
machine A to point to a WINS server for NetBIOS name resolution to be
working?
I know that on machine A, we put in a fixed IP address pointing to machine B
for the DNS, and I know that we don't have a hosts or lmhosts files, and I'm
pretty sure that we didn't configure any IP address for WINS server (at
least not on purpose).
So, what's puzzling me is if the possible name resolution mechanisms on
machine A are DNS, hosts, lmhosts, NetBIOS (not in that order), and we don't
have any of them configured on purpose except for DNS, and our DNS server on
machine B is only on a private network, how is the name resolution
succeeding???
Jim
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