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OK, now that I've done my share of blathering about Bill Horne's DNS problems, I've got my own mystery to present. A heterogeneous network, getting DNS and DHCP services from a Win2K server (hey, I didn't set up this network), includes some Linux boxen at fixed IP addresses. The addresses of those Linux hosts are among those served up by the Win2K-based DNS. Some Win2K clients on the network are able to reach the Linux hosts perfectly well for hours, a day, whatever... then they suddenly can't reach those hosts by name - DNS lookup fails. Performing a "ping -a <ip-addr-of-the-vanished-host>" from the Win2K client fixes the problem (the "-a" causes a reverse DNS lookup to be performed). Anyone recognize this problem? Nathan Meyers nmeyers at javalinux.net
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