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mattmcl1
Jan 01, 2008Aspirant
Backup not working
I haven't run my regular backup jobs for a month. In that time I have: Replaced disk #1 after failure & resynced Replaced disk #2 after failure & resynced Upgraded to version 4 of FrontView N...
StuBarrett
Feb 28, 2008Aspirant
derek wrote: StuBarrett, since you are on RoadRunner, can you try loading this page, and setting the option to disable it: http://ww23.rr.com/prefs.php
RoadRunner recently enabled a feature where failed DNS queries would redirect you to their "service" instead of responding with an expected NX (non-existant) host response. This will definately break some home lans where PCs try to query a local PC name, its not online, and they get RoadRunners IP instead, messing stuff up.
Whoa, I'm impressed!! That worked.
Weird, how mu other PCs could resolve the host name... I've never needed to use WINS since DNS always worked.
Stu
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