The Cisco VPN Client does, indeed, change the Microsoft generated DNS search
list. The Microsoft DNS resolver routines will use the appropriate Microsoft
or Cisco generated search list to resolve names and IP addresses. The problem
is that Microsoft's nslookup is isn't using this nor does it u
One thing I also learned recently is that the Cisco IPSEC VPN client
dialer hijacks all UDP DNS packets and sends them to the DNS server
handed out by the VPN concentrators. So "dig @x.x.x.x" and "nslookup
foo.bar x.x.x.x" queries don't actually go to x.x.x.x. Don't know if
that's in play here bu
On 6/13/2010 4:00 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
Inspecting the query log on the name server indicates that BIND never
services a request from the system running Microsoft's nslookup tool. In
addition, using tcpdump in controlled tests, I find that Microsoft's
nslookup implementation never s
In article ,
Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> I identified the problem in my original message. The Windows nslookup
> problem involves the failure to send DNS queries to the name server specified
> on the command line.
Is it sending out any queries at all?
If not, my guess is that it's che
On Jun 14, 2010, at 7:03 AM, b19...@anl.gov wrote:
> On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
>> Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can
>> be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to
>> work in a Windows 7 environment after a
On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can
> be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to
> work in a Windows 7 environment after a decision is made to upgrade Windows?
In this discussion,
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On 13/06/10 23:55, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
Providing access to the web-based tools to IT personnel might not be that big of a
challenge; however, the problem remains: Using "nslookup" is an ingrained
behavior for the general user.
Perhaps the initial target audience for this
On 06/13/10 15:55, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
Providing access to the web-based tools to IT personnel might not be
that big of a challenge;
Excellent!
however, the problem remains: Using "nslookup"
is an ingrained behavior for the general user.
I would assert that "the general user" h
On Jun 13, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> The problem with the erroneous functioning of Microsoft's nslookup.exe
>> is that it requires a corporate wide change. There are a number of
>> reasonably intelligent users that assume nslookup.exe is providing them
>> correct information. I woul
On 06/13/10 14:08, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
On Jun 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can
be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to
On Jun 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
>> Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can
>> be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to
>> work in a Windows 7 environment after a dec
On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can
be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to
work in a Windows 7 environment after a decision is made to upgrade Windows?
In the past I've instal
Recently, I implemented an instance of BIND that provides a "tailored" name
services for a private network connection between two organization. This
instance of BIND returns responses for a limited portion of our internal name
and address space that the other organization is permitted to access
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