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Michael Feinberg wrote:
> In at least my region, there is a problem with the DNS server settings
being
> provided by the DHCP server. It is responding with 4 DNS servers, but only
> the first 2 are true DNS servers. The last two appear to be DHCP servers.
> The first 2 DNS servers appear to be timing out on requests. This is
causing
> secondary, and then tertiary servers to be queried. In my case, once DNS
> cycled to the third server I was toast as there was no way I could have a
> chance to resolve DNS again as the OS (Windows) doesn't reset to the
primary
> DNS server on it's own.

I think we have a winner!

And the reason why those of us with both 2000/XP and 9x/ME machines are only
seeing the problem on the 2000/XP machines but not the 9x/ME machines is
that 9x/ME apparently will go back to the primary DNS server first each
time, while 2000/XP will not reset.

I changed my DNS settings in XP to only specify the first two (the real) DNS
servers, and it appears to have resolved the issue.

Excellent!

> I did call in this to AT&T, but I dount it will get forwarded to whoever
> would need to see it. Eventually they will figure it out...

Well I certainly hope they will figure this out!

--
Warren H.

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