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A new DNS puzzle



On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:58:51AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Nathan Meyers <nmeyers at javalinux.net> writes:
> 
> > Anyone recognize this problem?
> 
> Windows Sucks?

You don't have to convince me of that!

> I'm being serious.  NT/2k et.al. has been proven to fail on
> large-scale networks.  Any IETF that has used Windows for DHCP or DNS
> has had their networks fail miserably.

No large-scale networks here - just locally cached DNS records that go
AWOL, but only when referring to Linux hosts. There's no easy fix for the
suckitude of Windows, but maybe this particular problem is more tractable.

Nathan




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