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Posted by miked 1005 days ago
Category: Configuration / Get Started
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139270/EN-US/

If the OpenDNS updater altered the appropriate registry keys to prefer NetBIOS over DNS, it would eliminate many common problems with local names being resolved as NXDOMAIN.
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written by rotblitz 993 days ago - show/hide this comment Rating: -1 | Rate Comment: + -

written by joecr 992 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate Comment: + -

The only issue with that article is that it is for dead OS's only. IE nothing before Windows NT 4.0. A quote from the article including any spelling errors.

"Note By default, Windows 2000 and later versionss try to resolve a name through DNS before they try to resolve it through the earlier-version node-type configuration. DNS or NetBIOS lookup order priority cannot be modified by applying this registry entry in operating systems that are later than Windows NT 4.0."

written by joecr 992 days ago Rating: 3 | Rate Comment: + -

I also found they have already come up with a way to deal with this issue. You need to have the OpenDNS updater installed & have typo correction enabled. You setup the software to the user for your account & it will add the computers that it sees on your network. Because they are added to the "Exceptions for VPN users" thus dealing with your issue.

If you want a more elaborate method I could setup a PFSense box for you that would not require installing software onto a computer in your network.

written by jobeard 987 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate Comment: + -

Local DNS should always have presidence. The default entry for localhost then gifts the O.P. behavior and still allows MVPS.com solution to work too
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written by anon1492 956 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate Comment: + -

if you set up dns properly on your network this wouldnt be a issue, allow your router to cache the dns requests instead of directly giving clients opendns server ips

written by br5dy 932 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Comment: + -

I fully suggest this idea as well. I've had to go in and manually add VPN exceptions for specific computers in certain situations. It's not always with old machines either.


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