From: Jeff Shultz 

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:34:52 -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:

> I've got a Win2k professional install that is really starting to irritate
> me.
>
> It's losing the capability to do DNS (unless rebooted) after a very short
> period of time.
>
> I've enabled and disabled the DNS client service to no effect either way.
>
> It simply stops resolving.
>
> When I do an nslookup, I get this:
>
> C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\ObjectBar>nslookup hotmail.com
> DNS request timed out.
>     timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Can't find server name for address 204.119.27.10: Timed out DNS
> request timed out.
>     timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Can't find server name for address 204.119.27.52: Timed out ***
> Default servers are not available Server:  UnKnown
> Address:  204.119.27.10
>
> DNS request timed out.
>     timeout was 2 seconds.
> DNS request timed out.
>     timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Request to UnKnown timed-out
>
> Except a few minutes earlier it worked fine. And still works wonderfully
> well... on the Linux box sitting next to it. I've changed DNS server
> addresses (I have 4 available) to no effect. The problem is definitely
> with Win2k.

Additionally, I just discovered that I can't run ipconfig /flushdns or
/registerdns (file not found on that one) and there are no entries in
Event Viewer.

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