Re: Local machine - DNS issues?

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:34:25 -0400

In news:esjiC1rlEHA.2588@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Mark Renoden [MSFT] <markreno@online.microsoft.com> made a post then I
commented below
> Hi Corey
>
> Looking at the network traces you sent me:
>
> Good machine: We see a DNS request and response that resolves the
> name to an IP address:
>
> Request - DNS: 0x2623:Std Qry for www.yahoo.com. of type Host Addr on
> class INET addr.
> Response - DNS: 0x2623:Std Qry Resp. Auth. NS is www.yahoo.com. of
> type Canonical name on class INET addr.
>
> If you expand these in Network Monitor, you can see them in much
> greater detail.
>
> Bad machine:
>
> Request - NBT: NS: Query req. for WWW.YAHOO.COM <00>
>
> There is no response.
>
> The request on the bad machine isn't a DNS request but a NETBIOS
> request. This suggests to me that the bad client isn't correctly
> configured to use a DNS server or possibly the DNS Client service is
> not started. I can see from the good trace that the DNS server being
> used for successful name resolution is 152.1.1.206.
>
> Kind regards

Interesting. Also could be the DHCP client service disabled. Curious also if
Zone Alarm (or any other personal firewall) was installed at one time and
didn;t get removed properly. I've heard of that happening where ZA leaves
files behind that causes issues.

Ace

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Local machine - DNS issues?
    ... Response - DNS: 0x2623:Std Qry Resp. ... The request on the bad machine isn't a DNS request but a NETBIOS request. ... Stop the network traces and compare the results. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.dns)
  • Re: Local machine - DNS issues?
    ... Response - DNS: 0x2623:Std Qry Resp. ... The request on the bad machine isn't a DNS request but a NETBIOS request. ... Stop the network traces and compare the results. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.networking)
  • Re: Local machine - DNS issues?
    ... > Looking at the network traces you sent me: ... > The request on the bad machine isn't a DNS request but a NETBIOS ... Also could be the DHCP client service disabled. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.dns)
  • Re: [WARNING] The DNS Resolver Cache service is not running.
    ... It prevents anyone (at least on the server) from ... receiving, DNS Resolver Cache no running, so sorry. ... DHCP Client Service ...
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