Pinging of DNS Servers?

M

Matt

Can anyone think of a reason that a clean WinXP or Win2K machine would
ping the DNS servers listed in the TCP/IP properties fields? I'm
seeing activity of machines pinging the DNS servers on our network, they
machines are all clean of virii.. but it's annoying.. how can I make
WinXP/Win2K stop pinging??!! Why is it doing it?
 
S

serverguy

It depends on what services are running. If the machines have the DNS
client service running, then yes, they are going to look for DNS servers -
this is normal. There are other services that do all sorts of things on a
regular basis (computer browser service, windows time service, etc...) If
you don't want the machines to talk to the network then why would you
connect them to it?
 

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