by Rich Crandall
13. November 2009 02:51
Have you ever noticed that ping and nslookup give different results when resolving a name? This happened to me many, many times and it caused me some frustration before I made the effort to understand why it was okay for the results to be different. Let's look at some of the reasons that nslookup results can be so different from ping results.
There are really three important things to understand I think:
How the Windows client resolver works (at least at a high level).
What ping is intende...
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