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> My service provider is in a knock down, drag out with the phone company
> and as a result my T1 has been shaky at best for the last five days.
> We've noticed that when the T1 goes away, that it can take at least 5-10
> minutes to log an Outlook 97 user into the Exchange 5.5 SP2 server
> running under NT4.0 SP4. We also notice that once the client does get in
> that Exchange is a very slow responder. My provider has been up for four
> hours solid, so I don't know if I will need the answer to this one.
> Would stopping the IMC service speed things up internally? Or is this a
> DNS/WINS issue? (I do have a WINS server.)

> > Hi,

> > My service provider is in a knock down, drag out with the phone company
> > and as a result my T1 has been shaky at best for the last five days.
> > We've noticed that when the T1 goes away, that it can take at least 5-10
> > minutes to log an Outlook 97 user into the Exchange 5.5 SP2 server
> > running under NT4.0 SP4. We also notice that once the client does get in
> > that Exchange is a very slow responder. My provider has been up for four
> > hours solid, so I don't know if I will need the answer to this one.
> > Would stopping the IMC service speed things up internally? Or is this a
> > DNS/WINS issue? (I do have a WINS server.)

> This is DNS/WINS (name resolution) issue. From your description it appears
> that your user's computers are trying to use ISP DNS server to find IP
addr
> of ExchServ.

> > Thanks,

> > Scott Shadwell
> > LOMA

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