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- Name resolution VERY much slower when switching from LAN to RAS connection
- Network
- Admin Tips
- Windows NT
- Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base
- Section(s): Network
- Published on Apr 20, 2004.
- Last Modified on Apr 20, 2004.
- Last Modified by Wayne Maples.
- Rated 3 out of 5 based on 1 votes.
If you have a laptop and use DHCP, you may find that name resolution is very
slow once you leave the lan and connect from home using RAS. In fact its so slow
you think that the computer is hung. The problem is that the nic card still has
DNS addresses cached which are unreachable remotely. Use ipconfig /release to clear this ip data. For more information,
see Q169231
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