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by moore_a

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I have a workstation That thinks it is the DNS host. I've never seen this happr=en. How can you tell thw desktop to search for the actual DNS. In other works when I do a network diagnostic, The DNSSearhOrder fails, and the DNSHostName comes back as the desktop.

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by ndewhall

I take it you are running Windows 2000 pro as a standalone computer..or is it part of a network. Please provide a few more detqils. Was it always like this. Did you ever have it set up properly?

by moore_a

Actually, The workstation is running XP, but the problem was resolved. It seems that the was a problem with connectivity to the network. We were fooled into thinking that the was a "live" connection as indicated by the indicator lite on theNIC card. So confirm my suspicions, I re-ran ethernet back to the desktop and viola! Issue fixed

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