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[Kevin Hunter]

I have this exact same problem at my office!!!  I'm sorry that I have
no solution for you but I can tell you how it was explained to me.
The problem is Windows 2000 and DNS.  I have an internal DNS domain
that is defined only by one DNS server ( one that's internal to my
LAN ).  However all my DHCP leases give clients several name servers,
but only the first one knows about my internal domain.  

What we think is happening is that win2k clients are randomly picking
which DNS server to ask to resolve internal DNS names.  Of course
when they hit the 2nd or 3rd name server, it doesn't know.  It's some
kind of round robin poling or something like that.  We don't know why
it's happening.  My win9x and NT4 clients don't do this.  When you
renew the lease, the client starts from the first name server again.

This is not a linux problem, b/c my name server is FreeBSD 4.2.  This
is a MicroSlop, MicroCrap, Bill Gates pain in the butt problem.

If anyone can show me how to force win2k to behave, I would be
forever in their debt.  It's b/c a huge nuisance at my office.

KH