Microsoft DNS Client Service

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They should have called this the "Ignore DNS Configuration" service. Or
the "Keep DNS from working" service. Or the "Not DNS but we'll fake it"
service.

You know how Sun and other companies have occasionally gone "you know
what would be really nifty? A local resolver-only name server to cache
gethostbyname results!" and implemented something that may speed name
lookups a little but at the cost of making DNS problems harder to fix?

Microsoft has done them one better. They have this thing that grabs names
from anywhere it can, including "browsing" (that is, believe whatever lies
any nearby computers might tell you), WINS, NDS, and whatever DNS server
it thinks is "best" (ignoring the resolver order you specified).

And they have the affrontery to call it the "DNS Client Service". This is
a lie only exceeded by NT4's claim that UNIX (BSD) printing was "Microsoft
TCP/IP printing".

AND they turn it on by default.

Hate them, I does.

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  • Microsoft DNS Client Service peter (Peter da Silva) 16:12 on 03 May 2004
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 15:14 on 03 Sep 2004
    • Re: Microsoft DNS Client Service Phil Pennock 15:18 on 03 Sep 2004
      • too deep to show

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