70-216 - LocalNetPriority

Author

LocalNetPriority

nero64

2003-10-01, 6:53 am

I have one of these questions which says something about 3 web servers. They have identical content and members from different depts access them. When members try and access these some uses report that it is slow and other uses do not.

So out of the answers I thought enable round robin on the DNS server.

But the answer is

Disable the LocalNetPriority setting on the Dns server.

I have never heard of this and am finding it difficult to get info on this.

Can anyone explain it for me or give me a link to some info on it.

karlisi

2003-10-01, 8:35 am

In short:
If the resolver receives multiple A resource records from a DNS server, and some have IP addresses from networks to which the computer is directly connected to, the resolver orders those resource records first. This reduces network traffic across subnets by forcing computers to connect to network resources that are closer to them.

Go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr....asp?frame=true
click on 'Windows 2000 resolver' and scroll down to 'Configuring Subnet Prioritization'.

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