Windows DNS Client Behaviour

Had a client with some odd DNS resolution issues recently. The clients were not using the primary DNS server and they should have been. These pages helped identify why that was:

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/stdqry/archive/2011/12/02/dns-clients-and-timeouts-part-1.aspx
• http://blogs.technet.com/b/stdqry/archive/2011/12/15/dns-clients-and-timeouts-part-2.aspx
• http://blog.johnruiz.com/2011/12/windows-does-not-always-honor-dns-order.html?m=1