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> > but the vendor of that cr*p didn't get the underlying nameserver
> > working correctly at all.  (For example, the server never hands out
> > authoritative answers, even if it is for sure an authoritative server.)
> 
> This may be intentional laxity.  In their opinion, you are supposed
> to buy an NT server and configure WINS naming instead of DNS.

Not so sure about this - as far as I know WINS is going away in NT 5.0
(to be replaced by DNS dynamic updates).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no