----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vinny Abello" <vi...@abellohome.net>
> Just an FYI... > > Every version of Windows since Windows 2000 (sans Windows Me) has had > the DNS Client service which maintained this caching function. This > was by design due to the massive dependency on DNS resolution which > Active Directory has had since its creation. It greatly reduced the > amount of repetitive lookups required thereby speeding up AD based > functions and lessening the load on DNS servers. It still exists today > up through Windows 8. You can disable the service, but it will also > break DDNS updates unless your DHCP server registers hostnames on > behalf of your clients. Microsoft broke the Internet just to make their internal networking work properly? I'm shocked; *shocked* I tell... yes, just put the money right over there; *shocked* I say. You can't imagine how much time that lost me in diagnoses when it first came out, until we finally located it somewhere on the Internet. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274