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Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: MartinHTN (m_at_ht.n)
Date: 06/22/04


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:39:31 -0400

Pat:

>From http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323380:

Windows can use root hints. The Root Hints resource records can be stored in
either Active Directory or in a text file
(%SystemRoot%\System32\DNS\Cache.dns). Windows uses the standard Internic
root server. Also, when a server running Windows Server 2003 queries a root
server, it updates itself with the most recent list of root servers.

Regards,
Martin

"PatH" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25c501c457d9$847fbc20$3501280a@phx.gbl...
> My DNS is strictly outside DNS and my Internet clients
> rely upon it for DNS resolution. My primary DNS server is
> a Windows 2003 server, the Secondary is Windows 2000. The
> root hints on the 2003 server do not update, not can I
> find any way to update them other than copying from my
> 2000 machine. This results in my clients frequently not
> being able to access or email to certain websites.
>
> Is there a way to force a root hint update in Windows 2003?



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