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echo: nthelp
to: Mike `/m`
from: Mike N.
date: 2003-07-10 07:55:04
subject: Re: I.E. 6.0 download?

From: Mike N. 

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:00:42 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote:

>But any reverse lookup for my IP address should go to my ISP's DNS, as
>that is the zone that owns the in-addr name for the address.

   I believe that Windows tries to directly contact the host for a Netbios name
if DNS
fails.  I've seen this in other situations.   I don't know if there's a way to
turn off
the Netbios portion of name resolution.

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