Re: DNS Disappears- Intermittently

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No, they knew their domain name. However for some reason they could not
resolve some DNS names on the network. It was a really strange problem, but
there appeared to be no reason for it. However, once the primary suffix was
manually entered in the network settings, the problem went away.

Believe me it was a head scratcher.

I will see if I can get the article.

"Ace Fekay [MVP]" wrote:

> In news:4B7BF90F-39FF-47BC-9250-6261090E9EBB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Hutch <Hutch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I then
> commented about below:
> > Yes that is what I was referring to (DNS Suffix). We originally had
> > this setup the way you mentioned, however ran into problems with our
> > DNS resolutions. One of network admins tracked down the issue, and
> > found that solution. Unfortunately, I don't have the article on it.
> > All I know is we only had to make the change on XP boxes...the 2000
> > Pro clients were fine.
>
> Ok, reason I asked is because there are different types of 'suffixes'.
>
> Are you saying the XP boxes didn't take on the domain as it's Prim DNS
> Suffix? I haven't seen this problem before. Curious if you dig up the
> article, I would like to review it.
>
> Thanks,
> Ace
>
>
>
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