On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:59 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:00:17 CST Lynn Avants wrote: <snip> > Not that you said they were, but the unspecified DNS suffix and > the nslookup "Can't find server name..." message are not related. > nslookup is complaining because the PTR lookup for > 254.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. fails. To the best of my knowledge, > that behaviour is independent of whether a DNS suffix is present. > (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
You are correct, but Win2k/XP "expect" a DNS suffix on the machine, thus the lag. > > The Win2K box is trying to find the domain-name from your DNS server > > since you have NOT entered one manually (like most of us do). Win2K is > > attempting to figure out what your domain-name by DNS records on the > > internet and broadcast, forcing you to wait until it fails before > > resolving any DNS information requested by the user (the lag). If you > > used DHCP to receive an ip address (per default setup), this information > > would be received via the DHCP lease. > > > > You will have this problem EVERY reboot until you either use DHCP on the > > Win2k client or enter a domain-name (anything basically) in the IP setup > > on the Win2k machine. > > While I don't know enough about Win2k to comment for all > configurations of that OS, I can say that I do not have a dns > suffix specified and I don't experience any dns-related hangs > or timeouts (immediately after reboot or otherwise). Are you using DHCP on the machine(s) w/o a suffix??? I'll admit that this problem is not (as) likely to happen on the "home" releases, the "pro"/"server" release of Win2k/XP are set to run within a domain network and this has tons of compatibility problems with any other network setup. My assumptions is that Mohan is running a non-"home" version of Win2K and the non-rfc compliant DNS/WINS implementation is causing the lag because of the default assumption by Win2k that he is on a domain Win2K/XP network. The problem this behavior causes with older M$ networks can be mind-numbing if you haven't worked with a company adding Win2k/XP workstations w/o upgrading the servers and other workstations. ~Lynn Avants ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
