Re: ping from a Windows client desktop doesn't resolve

Jason Haar wrote:

>> Can you tell from the dnscache logs if the client is even attempting the
>> lookup?  If it isn't, then no amount of coercing by dnscache will force
>> it to do so.

> Yeah - my first thought is that /service/dnscache/root/ip doesn't
> contain the subnets that the Windows clients reside on.

Except that it appears he can access the cache through nslookup, or if
he disables the "DNS client" service, so it doesn't appear to be a
dnscache configuration issue.  It's more than likely some "back channel
lookup", like WINS.

> "touch /service/dnscache/root/ip/192.168"
> 
> and restart dnscache.

No restart is necessary - dnscache stats the file on every request.


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