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Selecting 'preferred adapter' in XP to be 'remote access connections' (for DNS resolution)
Does anyone know how to change the 'preferred adapter' in Windows XP?
Adjusting the binding order would make a lot of sense, but it doesn't appear to work (at least with 'remote access connections', I haven't tested with multiple NICs). The reason I'm looking to do this is because sometimes our remote users encouter a DNS server at a hotel for example, that provides incorrect name resolution for our .local domain (using a wildcard to resolve all .local requests I imagine), whereas if the XP computer first tried the PPP adapter's DNS servers, name resolution would be correct. The DNS server at the hotel is taken as the proper response because it is the preferred DNS server of the preferred adapter and resolves the query first. The problem occurs rarely, but it does happen. According to the following article, XP will always query the preferred adapter's primary DNS server first: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...j_ipa_bsmz.asp Therefore, I would like to be able to set the preferred adapter to the PPP adapter so that any hotel's DNS server does not get first crack at resolving our internal namespace for the client. I imagine there must be a reg tweak or something out there, but so far haven't been able to find it or anyone who knows it. Any ideas? Thanks, Alan |
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