Re: [NTISP] NT DNS

Josh Hillman ( (no email) )
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:36:43 -0400

From: Richard K. Marshall <rkm@marshall.net>
> I am fighting the exact same battle... will post what I have found when I
> can come up for air.

Maybe you're running into some kind of caching problem??
Open up MS DNS, then expand the Cache zone and delete .com and maybe a few
others and see if things go back to normal.

Josh

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com
> > [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of john@sapic.org
> > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 7:09 PM
> > To: ntisp@iea-software.com
> > Subject: [NTISP] NT DNS
> >
> >
> > Okay, I think I've had it with MS DNS. Every so often it goes a little
> > haywire and introduces all kinds of problems in to my life, and
> > now I've run
> > up against one that I am just unable to solve, and I've been working on
it
> > for three weeks.
> >
> > I recently swapped IP addresses on my NT boxes, and of course made the
> > requisite updates to all my zone files. Now however though, when
> > I dial in
> > and try to access sites on my servers the domains resolve as the old IP
> > addresses. The really annoying aspect of it all is that it's
> > intermittent.
> > It just does not happen all the time. Sometimes the problem last for
days
> > and then ends; other times it lasts for an hour or more, then ends.
Other
> > times it only affects domains if I don not add the www in front of the
> > domain. When that happens it generally resolves fine if I do not add
the
> > www. Another example... two computers (Win98) both dialing in,
> > will exhibit
> > different problems (all the above) but not at the same time. For
instance
> > earlier I dialed in from one computer and was able to connect to
> > one domain
> > fine, but not from the other a few minutes later!!!!
> >
> > Now, I point both machines at the DNS servers running in my network.
Both
> > DNS servers are NT4 with SP4 loaded.
> >
> > The question I am most looking for an answer to is this.. where
> > exactly does
> > NT store these old IP addresses if they are not in the zone files under
> > /system32/dns/ ? I've looked in the registry, but can't find any plain
> > text for the IP's listed anywhere and I'm at my wits end!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
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