Querying source of hostname resolution?

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Gordo

Is there any tool or way to determine the source location of where a name
got resolved? I'm trying to troubleshoot a browser issue and a certain host
name and would like to determine which network service resolved the name
(WINS, DNS, broadcast, cache etc).

For some reason the browser service on one of our particular servers keeps
trying to communicate with another server within our company network, which
is located on the otherside of the world and a completely different domain.

TIA
 
When I need to do this is simply pull a network trace. Network Monitor is
included with Windows 2000 and should do the trick. Just clear the NetBIOS
name cache by running "nbtstat -R" and then clear the DNS resolver cache by
running "ipconfig /flushdns" before testing.

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