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How do I enable DNS round robin resolution?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
1 Min Read
A. Recent Windows NT service packs introduced LocalNetPriority whichtries to return Host resources that are local to the requestor instead of usinground robin however round robin can be enabled as follows:
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesDNSParameters
From the Edit menu select New - DWORD Value
Enter a name of LocalNetPriority and press Enter
Double click the new value and set to 0 to disable LocalNetPriority and re-enable round robin. Click OK
Close the registry editor
Stop and restart the DNS service
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