Win2k going standby looses DNS

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?=]

Hello there,

Whenever my computer goes in Stand-by mode, the Local Area Connection
will ignore or have lost my primary DNS and will use secondary or third.
Of cause the primary DNS is preferred and it is very irritating that I
have to disable and re-enable the Local Area Connection to enable the
first DNS.

The Local Area connection has a fixed IP, DNS and GW configuration. The
primary DNS is on my local area network to have some local domains, the
second and third are of my ISP and are behind firewall.

Anybody had the same problem and can give me some suggestion how to
avoid it? If this is a bug, is there a patch for it? Is there antoher
quicker way (command line command) that would allow me to restart the
Local Area Connection?

Thanks for your interest and help!

René

 

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Hi

How are you identifying which DNS server responds to your machine DNS query?

Also is this machine part of an AD domain - if so NO external DNS addresses
should be configured in client TCP/IP settings

Regards

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?=]

How are you identifying which DNS server responds to your machine DNS query?

It's very simple. When the local primary DNS is not playing a role, the
local domains will not be recognized; they are not public and are not
registered and won't appear in my ISP's DNS.

So when a local domain is not recognized I know the primary DNS is not
responding. When I reset my Local Area Connection (Disable-Enable cycle)
and then the local domain names are recognized again, proving that the
response is from my local DNS.

I have secondary DNS defined because in some occasions the local DNS
server can be unavailable (weekends and evenings) and then I want to
fall back on my ISP's DNS servers, without having to mess around with
the configuration.

Also is this machine part of an AD domain - if so NO external DNS addresses
should be configured in client TCP/IP settings

I don't know what you mean with AD domain. I read something about it and
it doesn't seem related to my situation. May be I should have added more
details about the network:

* Linux Suse 9.2 box that serves as file server through SMB
* Local DNS server is on the same Linux box. I defined some zones, all
are local non public domains. And it serves as caching slave DNS for all
Internet queries.
* Windows 2k professional workstation (the machine that experiences the
problem)


Thankful for any advise you might have!

René