[Full-Disclosure] Strange behavior in Windows 98 and 2000
Danny Pansters
danny at ricin.com
Thu Oct 2 00:12:03 BST 2003
> 2000 and XP boxes lose TCP/IP communication and, after a reboot, they
> work again.
Win XP tries to push itself as being the authoritative server of its own
host name by attempting to transfer its zone to the (local) dns server,
doesn't it? Erratic behaviour is always a good way to break the thing.
I rarely use WinXP, but did note that it behaves like that. Dunno about
W2k.
HTH
Dan
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