Re: Multihomed server

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:32:58 -0600

"Mike Lowery" <selfspam@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
news:u8V8$kiCFHA.2288@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> These NICs aren't on the same subnet, they're on different networks. Both
> computers are on both networks. Windows knows this and its NetBIOS name
list
> shows two IPs for each computer. It seems to arbitrarily pick which IP
(or NIC)
> to use.
>
> I think the solution is to use a DNS server that has a separate entry/name
for
> each NIC IP address. Then I can specify which NIC to use for traffic.
Windows
> DNS has a priority feature that would probably solve this problem also:

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