From: Jeff Shultz 

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:39:01 -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:

> 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.

I'm guessing (now) that those are server functions... btw, no AD on this system.

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