DNS Client Service question

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I had problems trying to access the internet with one particular conputer
which was configured the same as three others in my office (except for its
unique local IP address). I disabled the DNS Client service on that machine
and I was finally able to access the internet. Could someone explain me why,
and what side effects this may have? I haven't noticed any malfuction yet
due to this modification.
Thanks in advance.
 
Paul said:
I had problems trying to access the internet with one particular
conputer which was configured the same as three others in my office
(except for its unique local IP address). I disabled the DNS Client
service on that machine and I was finally able to access the
internet. Could someone explain me why, and what side effects this
may have? I haven't noticed any malfuction yet due to this
modification.
Thanks in advance.
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The DNS Client service, is actually the DNS cache, the side effects would be
that every time the client needs to resolve a name, it has to query the DNS
server.
If disabling the DNS Cache fixed your problem, I'd have to take a look at
the HOSTS file to see what is in it, as the main difference would be that
when the DNS Client starts, it loads the contents of HOSTS file into the
cache.

You may want to start the DNS Client and run ipconfig /displaydns in a
command prompt to see what is getting loaded into the cache.
 
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