Re: Microsoft DNS Client Service

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From: Phil Pennock
Subject: Re: Microsoft DNS Client Service
Date: 15:18 on 03 Sep 2004
On 2004-09-03 at 09:14 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> YAR SCURVY BEGGAR! If you're going to intercept DNS requests and
> replace them with random names you pick up from WINS, browsing,
> yarrow stalks, and entrails of small animals, will you at least
> add some code that goes "hey, I'm getting a failure here, why don't
> I go back and give DNS another shot"?

Is it 'intercepting', or are the hostname resolution routines using
other sources first, much as Suns will use NIS+ maps, etc etc?

If it's cached a failure, have you tried ipconfig /flushdns, that
ever-so-handy tool for dealing with the broken cache-timeouts in the MS
name-service cache?

*mutters darkly about 5 minute TTLs being 24 hour TTLs for Windows-using
 customers*
There's stuff above here

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