At 08:57 AM 5/29/98 -0400, you wrote:

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Actually it has nothing to do with WINS. If all the ISP's would implement

Bzzt. Thank you for playing, though. If it were not for WinS, there wouldn't be a second packet being sent, no matter what junk is the payload.

Thanks. I knew I wasn't crazy and seriously doubted that my sniffer was inventing these packets just to piss me off.

Now I agree ISP's should do better DNS resolution, but every MS box plugged into the net sending a second packet adds up to a lot of junk packets eating up expensive bandwidth. MS catches the blunt of the critisizm because they are the only ones to have adopted such a lame networking scheme, and then forced it down others quotes.

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