Re: Users Cannot login when Inet Connection goes down

Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:23:42 -0700

>> BUT if you look in your clients file you will see that you have the
>> DNS name of your Portmaster. Therfore, in order to authenticate the
>> packet, the portmaster needs the DNS. :)
>>
>> The easiest way to solve this is to put an entry in your hosts file
>> for the portmaster. Then NT will always resolve the hostname and
>> IP address from the local hosts file and doesn't need a DNS server.

> I am only using an IP Address in the clients file.

Ok. Thinking about this again, whether you have the IP address in there
or not isn't relevant. Its still going to try and resolve the IP address
of the incoming packet to a hostname using DNS. Therefore the only want
to prevent this is to put an entry in your c:\winnt35\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
file for the portmaster. Then will prevent it from using DNS for the host
and should improve performance.

-- 
 Dale E. Reed Jr.  (daler@iea.com)
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