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How to amend DNS settings through the Registry

Within the options of the network - TCP/IP options you have to tick boxes under advance - DNS

The first is "Register this connection's addresses in DNS"

The second is "Use this connection's DNS suffix in DNS registration"

I can find articles on how to enable or disable the first option, however I can't find anything regarding the second one.

I want to find out which registry key affects the second so I can change it either through a script or with custom registry entries in group policy

zvitam

The following article might help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q246/8/04.asp&NoWebContent=1

JordansGhost

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This shows that the option is available but says nothing about the registry key. Read this one the other day

jthow

JordansGhost ,

How about:-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305553&sd=tech

JohnT

JordansGhost

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Sorry, Nothing about the registry settings in that one either

JordansGhost

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The answer to this question is:

The registry key required is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Interfaces\

Then there will be a GUID for the NIC you have and under there is a Key called

RegisterAdapterName

This needs to have a value of 1 or 0 and the selection in regedit needs to be hexidecimal.

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