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Quite a variety of new articles were released this week, covering a number of networking technologies and operating system versions: 2523887 You may encounter file corruption issues when you use the Offline Files feature to synchronize data in Windows 7 2525835 MS11-047: Vulnerability in Microsoft Hyper...

I have just one new networking-related article to mention this week: 2465408 Applications or services cannot update their routing tables after they receive route change notifications in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 - Mike Platts

I have one new networking-related article for this week: 2473489 IP address and default gateway settings are assigned incorrectly in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008, in Windows 7, and in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Mike Platts

I have three new networking-related articles to share with you this week: 2533454 Resolving Internet connectivity issues on World IPv6 Day (June 8, 2011) 2550576 STOP 0xC4 may occur in tcpipreg.sys following a reboot after Driver Verifier is enabled on Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 2551021...

Happy New Year! At long last, I’m back at work and armed with the latest content. Here are the latest networking-related articles for the past few weeks: 2440591 MS10-099: Vulnerability in Routing and Remote Access could allow elevation of privilege 2470540 The host record of a computer that has a static...

Like last week, I have just two new networking-related articles to share with you this time. Enjoy! 2264957 A network adapter that has a Japanese device description is not displayed in the route table on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 2385596 An update that adds 33 configuration...

The drought appears to be over! I have quite a number of new networking-related articles to share with you this week: 2248145 IPsec connection in the IKEv1 tunnel mode fails from a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 2353808 The WINS replication operation fails on a failover...

Hi everyone – below are the most recently published networking-related articles: 2253198 Remote Desktop Gateway Installation And Public Configuration 2253032 DirectAccess Installation and Configuration 2253119 NLB migration questions and answers 2161341 Active Route removed on Windows Server Failover...

Here are the most recently published networking-related articles: 978886 MS10-058: Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP could allow elevation of privilege 982214 MS10-054: Vulnerabilities in SMB Server could allow remote code execution 982316 An update is available for the Windows Telephony Application Programming...

I only have one new recently published article to share for this week: 2299432 Winsock name resolution APIs use separate cache entries for AF_UNSPEC and AF_INET/AF_INET6 queries - Mike Platts

I’d like to apologize for not having any new KB articles to post for the past several weeks; some changes have been going on with the tools I use to find this information. Here are the most recent networking-related KB articles since my last entry on May 13th. I apologize in advance for any duplicates...

After a couple weeks with no new networking-related Knowledge Base articles, the floodgates have opened once again! On a related note, I am considering reducing the frequency of this post to twice monthly to avoid creating blog posts to let you know we have no new KB articles for a given week. Feel free...

There have been a few instances where our customers have asked us how to query the IP route table via SNMP from a remote Windows machine. The following article explains you how to query the list of routes from a remote Windows machine using SNMP and compares the output with "Route Print" ....

We have had a couple of lean weeks recently with very few new KB articles to report, but that is certainly not the case this time around! Here are the latest networking-related KB articles: 979554 The creator of an SNMP trap notification cannot be identified in Windows Server 2003 978972 Stop error message...

Here are the most recently published networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 975830 The memory usage of the Dns.exe process keeps increasing after you install hotfix 941672 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 and that has the DNS server role installed 975792 Numeric host names cannot...

There is often confusion about how a computer chooses which adapter to use when sending traffic. This blog describes the process by which a network adapter is chosen for an outbound connection on a multiple-homed computer, and how a local source IP address is chosen for that connection. What is Source...

This post is meant to discuss the issues that can occur with Destination IP address selection and its affect on the DNS Round Robin process. What is Round Robin and Netmask Ordering DNS Round Robin is a mechanism for choosing an IP address from the list returned by a DNS server so that all clients won...

We often have customers who want to better understand the resolution to their networking support issue and why what we did fixed their issue. Depending on the issue, this explanation may be quite involved and complex. This would be like asking the pilot on the way off the airplane to quickly and briefly...

I just wanted to provide a quick “what to do” when having an IP address conflict. I’ve had a few of these cases this year. I’m not sure that one needs to open a support case with us to resolve this. In some instances, critical applications/resources are down due to IP address conflicts. I’ll provide...