Re: network "stalls" ?

From: Sartan Dragonbane (null_at_null.mistrust.ca)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:54:44 GMT

Check your configs and see if you have a dns domain suffix for your
domain...
Start, settings, control panel, network connections... Advanced toolbar,
Computer name, Change...
"More" -- Primary DNS suffix of this computer.

"mmac" <no@thanks.com> wrote in message
news:OTo4rNHEEHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I am running a win2k domain with 12 machines and a win2k server using
> A/D .All the machines are connected through a switch. Connected to the net
> through a netgear firewall.
> The network will sometimes just stall. I can see this if I try to
browse
> the network. I will select "entire network" and then wait at least 30
> seconds and then my domain will show up. I click that and at least another
> 30 seconds later I may or may not see all the machines on my network.
while
> this is happenning I can drop into a command wondow and ping any machine
by
> name and I can also use NSlookup just fine. Once while this was happening
I
> saw an entry on the workstation event log I was on that said that the
server
> "had announced that it was the master browser and an election was being
> forced" . I have seen that message when the server is started but never
> during the middle of the day like that.
> I ran a sniffer and I get some errors about the machines being ":slow
to
> respond" but I can't interpret the sniffer output well enough to make
sense
> out of it. It could well be just a default threshold setting that is too
> low.
> Can anyone help point me in a direction? all machines are fully updated.
>
>

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