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by sam

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I have a dns server set up on a windows nt 4.0 server with servicde pack 6. It works fine for resolving fully qualified domain names. But I cannot get it to resolve the single label names of servers without a 15 second delay. Obviously the resolution is not occurring through dns. I have the use wins checked in dns and this sure does not improve anything. How do I get this to work with my short server names? I.E. rocky, server1, etc

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by mikel~t

Have you specified the implicit search domain on the clients? In DNS, you can specify the domain that your machine will search by default before it goes to NetBios.

It should be under TCP/IP and the DNS tab.

Hope this helps.

Mike

by mikel~t

sorry, I forgot to add the explanation that if you specify rocky1 in a ping command, or unc name, it will automatically look for rocky1.domainname.com, and if it can't find it, it will resort to NetBios....

by sam

Ok, I forgot to mention that my site has non windows clients as well. We have some dns servers that the isp provides that can do this without specifying the domain suffixes to append to unqualified names.

by some guy in seattle

"Use WINS" being checked is the first step, but do you have the WINS service installed on that machine or another on the network (and then having your problem machine pointed to it as the WINS server)? If not, then the machine is broadcasting NetBIOS requests to find your target machine by the host name.

If you don't/can't use WINS, you can put the host names of your other machines in the lmhosts file in the winnt\system32\drivers\etc directory. If it is appended with ".sam" just rename itto lmhosts. Instructions are included in the file for how to enter the naming information.

Hope that helps,

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