Problem with DNS / WINS in mixed mode environment

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mark Scott
  • Start date Start date
M

Mark Scott

Just lately I am having a problem on my network with WINS lookups for NT
level servers.

If I ping my 4 Windows 2000 from my 2000 admin station I get responses
instantaniously. however if I ping my 2 NT4 boxes there is a notable delay
of between 2 and 15 seconds. the subsequent ping is not quicker either.

There is another problem linked to this - my printers are hosted off an NT4
box and my 2000 and XP clients cannot see the printers - they try to connect
and get the torch follwed by a time out, my NT4 clients can connect to the
same printers fine.

Any ideas? I beleive it is DNS or mainly WINS related, I notice that the
prior admin has only set up 1 WINS server and my MCSE training says use 2 (I
believe!) and my DNS zone seems OK too (AD integrated).

Regareds

Mark Scott, MCSA, MCSE
 
In
Mark Scott said:
Just lately I am having a problem on my network with WINS lookups for
NT level servers.

If I ping my 4 Windows 2000 from my 2000 admin station I get responses
instantaniously. however if I ping my 2 NT4 boxes there is a notable
delay of between 2 and 15 seconds. the subsequent ping is not
quicker either.

There is another problem linked to this - my printers are hosted off
an NT4 box and my 2000 and XP clients cannot see the printers - they
try to connect and get the torch follwed by a time out, my NT4
clients can connect to the same printers fine.

Any ideas? I beleive it is DNS or mainly WINS related, I notice
that the prior admin has only set up 1 WINS server and my MCSE
training says use 2 (I believe!) and my DNS zone seems OK too (AD
integrated).

Regareds

Mark Scott, MCSA, MCSE
Click to expand...

Well, this depends on your WINS server client config and the client's
config. On the server, insure that itself is listed twice (that was per an
older tech article). It insures ownership of the record and a retry on
lookups. On the clients, just list the local WINS on that subnet.

Now if lookups are timing out on some machines going to that server, I would
probably start by looking at the physical wire. Yes, as obvious as it may
seem, I've seen that cause many problems with seasoned admins.

--
Regards,
Ace

Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
Back
Top