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Re: (ASCEND) NT Dials P75 on Bootup

golfing@iname.com wrote:

> ...
> I do not have anything of which I am aware that would send a dns 
> request upon workstation initialization.

NT checks for the domain name server when starting the _login_ sequence.
You might want to login to a domain account and so the list of connected
domains is re-built.

If your workstation is just a member of a workgroup I am not sure what
happens.

> I do have two entries in my LMHOSTS file.
> 

A-ha. Which ? I mean which particular servers do you have in the file,
the domain name server and the DNS host? 
Do you have the entries pre-loaded like in

# 102.54.94.97     maestro         #PRE #DOM:technik    # PDC from
"technik"

Notice the domain name for the PDC.

> I would like to suppress the dial, but am not sure where to look next.
> Anyone else seen something like this?

My experience says: live with it. Beside the PDC lookup there are
numerous other occasions when NT causes "invisible" traffic. Like
updating the browser list, replication, WINS service etc.
There is quite explicit info in the MS Knowledge base
(http://support.microsoft.com) and the NT Resource Kit.

Maybe you could reduce this traffic by installing TCP/IP only (i.e.
removing NetBEUI). I haven't tried yet - did anybody? Would domain login
still work without the MS protocol?

My impression is that WAN is something the MS people discovered after
the design stage was finished.

But otherwise, NT isn't that bad ... :-))


Best regards,

   Wolfgang

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