Vista's 'Next Gen' TCP/IP Stack

boyko.at.netqos writes "Microsoft's new Vista TCP/IP stack might be beneficial to businesses looking to increase use of their IT infrastructure... if they did it right. Ted Romer at Network Performance Daily writes: '[Vista] now allows us to throttle outbound traffic at a client or server. For example, you can throttle the bandwidth of a particular subnet to a particular server, giving some departments more access to the servers that they need. You can even restrict outgoing bandwidth for certain peer-to-peer applications like bit torrent. This shaping can also be handy when applied to servers, allowing less bandwidth for certain users/departments, and more for others. While consumers may debate whether Vista is a worthwhile upgrade, I believe it to be important for enterprise customers who will best be able to put Vista's capabilities to their fullest potential. Of course, I'm getting it for DirectX 10 games, but that's just me.'"

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Vista's DNS Suffixing

[RedBot]

I'm having problems with Vista's DNS Suffixing:

- My entire network has the dns suffix : work.intranet and I have a BIND dns server that resolves a.work.intranet and *.a.work.intranet to 192.168.0.2 so that if I ping bbb.a.work.intranet or ccc.a.work.intranet they all resolve to 192.168.0.2 (at least up until Vista)

- If I ping a.work.intranet it correctly resolves to 192.168.0.2;
- If I ping a it correctly resolves to 192.168.0.2;
- If I ping bbb.a.work.intranet it correctly resolves to 192.168.0.2;
- BUT IF I ping bbb.a it no longer resolves. (could not find host)

- If I do a nslookup bbb.a it correcly resolves to 192.168.0.2

So what appears to be happening is that it isn't adding the dns suffix when the domain has more than two parts (xxx.yyy).

Any ideas how to solve this?

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?Pos tID=884630&SiteID=1

Wow a lot of ms bashers that are hypocrites

[majortom1981]

All of you are saying that linux has this and ahrdware does this. What they dont get bashed but microsoft adds the feature and you right away bash them. Doesnt linux have it too? I dont see why people dont bash linux either. What people dont want a microsoft os to get better? why all the hypocritical bashing?