Re: DNS, Internet and Informix

Posted in 1999

Dirk Gunsthoevel — Tue, 18 May 1999 14:13:04 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

"Christian Schr'der" wrote: > > I have a very interesting Problem: > > I've got a *small* Informix Server 7.23.TC14 under NT4.0 SP4 > running in a small LAN. This Lan has an Internet Connection and > uses the DNS-Servers of the local Provider. > If DNS is konfigured all queries take a lot of time, > if DNS is deactivated, everything is ok. > > I think, because the external DNS - Server doesnt know the > Hostname of this Machine, WinNT is waiting for a timeout before > it looks in the \\%WINNT%\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts. > > Somebody else a Problem like this ? > any Ideas ? You can try to play with the priority settings for name resolving in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\CurrentControlSet\\Tcpip\\ServiceProvider and change the keys DnsPriority, HostsPriority and LocalPriority This worked for me with regedit. I dont know of any tools to do the job. Be careful ;> Regards, Dirk -- -- Dirk Gunsthoevel phone: +49 (0)251 624947 -- Hoeftestr.49 fax: +49 (0)251 624177 -- 48167 Muenster mobile: +49 (0)171 8047582 -- Germany http://members.aol.com/Plabit/welcome.html

↪ replying to Dirk Gunsthoevel

Christian Schr�der — Tue, 18 May 1999 16:10:25 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <7hrq1h$h0m$1@news.xmission.com>, gunstho@uni-muenster.de says... > > "Christian Schr'der" wrote: > > > > I have a very interesting Problem: > > > > I've got a *small* Informix Server 7.23.TC14 under NT4.0 SP4 > > running in a small LAN. This Lan has an Internet Connection and > > uses the DNS-Servers of the local Provider. > > If DNS is konfigured all queries take a lot of time, > > if DNS is deactivated, everything is ok. > > > > I think, because the external DNS - Server doesnt know the > > Hostname of this Machine, WinNT is waiting for a timeout before > > it looks in the \\%WINNT%\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts. > > > > Somebody else a Problem like this ? > > any Ideas ? > > You can try to play with the priority settings for name > resolving in the registry: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\CurrentControlSet\\Tcpip\\ServiceProvider > and change the keys > DnsPriority, HostsPriority and LocalPriority > > This worked for me with regedit. I dont know of any tools to do the > job. Be careful ;> > > Regards, > Dirk This sounds like an working Solution ! Will test it ASAP ! Installing several Copies of Informix, helps getting used with regedit ! ;> Again thanx Cris