Pascal offredo wrote: ... > > the client (for the test) is a windows 2003 server. We use W2K3 here (my day job) as well.. and AFAICT it is still as broken as ever with regards to DNS. My true enterprise contracts use BIND/DHCP. You need to ask the "experts" from M$ about W2K3 DNS issues. Ask them for the source code too! :-)