Why Is My DNS Client Service Disabled? Also, What About HP Network Devices Support?

Reviewing Services on my Vista Ultimate 64-bit machine I noticed that
the DNS Client is disabled? I have a wireless router configured to
the laptop and to the printer and have for some times been
experiencing disconnection problems to the laptop and loosing the
printer connectivity completely until I unplug the router, wait, and
plug it back in--which will restore connectivity until the next time.

Shouldn't the DNS Client be enabled?

Also noticed in Services I found HP Network Devices Support is set to
Automatic (Delayed Start). Could this be what is causing the printer
(C7280 All-in-One) to write so many (hundreds in days) .log entries in
\Windows\Temp?

Thanks.

"Susan" <UCE@null.invalid> wrote in message
news:gs45s4ljitioplv8plc7pad469v1rh18sa@4ax.com...
> Reviewing Services on my Vista Ultimate 64-bit machine I noticed that
> the DNS Client is disabled? I have a wireless router configured to
> the laptop and to the printer and have for some times been
> experiencing disconnection problems to the laptop and loosing the
> printer connectivity completely until I unplug the router, wait, and
> plug it back in--which will restore connectivity until the next time.
>
> Shouldn't the DNS Client be enabled?
>

The DNS Client service is not needed unless perhaps your machine is in a
domain.
I don't know anything about the HP 'support' process.

Tom

In message <ubNB7jOqJHA.1172@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> "Tom Allen"
<me@privacy.net> was claimed to have wrote:

>"Susan" <UCE@null.invalid> wrote in message
>> Shouldn't the DNS Client be enabled?
>
>The DNS Client service is not needed unless perhaps your machine is in a
>domain.

It's not strictly needed, but the cache does tend to increase
performance if you've got more then a couple milliseconds of latency
between yourself and your nearest DNS server.

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:34:57 -0700, Dave Warren
<dave-usenet@djwcomputers.com> wrote:

>In message <ubNB7jOqJHA.1172@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> "Tom Allen"
><me@privacy.net> was claimed to have wrote:
>
>>"Susan" <UCE@null.invalid> wrote in message
>>> Shouldn't the DNS Client be enabled?
>>
>>The DNS Client service is not needed unless perhaps your machine is in a
>>domain.
>
>It's not strictly needed, but the cache does tend to increase
>performance if you've got more then a couple milliseconds of latency
>between yourself and your nearest DNS server.

Let me try twisting the question differently... Would enabling the
DNS Client prevent or help prevent losing wireless printer
connectivity at times such as rebooting the system or waking from
sleep? OR, would enabling the DNS Client make matters such as loss of
connectivity after booting or waking worse?

If you enable a Service that has been disabled what are the ground
rules as to whether you would use Manual, Automatic, or Automatic
(Delayed Start)? In the case of the DNS Client, which enable would
you use and why?

Thanks.

Hi
The DNS service does not matter so much on peer-to-peer network. I choose to
enable it on my systems.
You can try two things with the Wireless.
Either take it out of the Sleep pattern totally. I.e. No Powersaving on the
Wireless card, or make sure that the Powersaving is On and the Entry to
allow the card to Wake Up the system is On too.
Powersaving Entries should be in the card's configuration menus, and in the
advanced Power management settings in Vista.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"Susan" <UCE@null.invalid> wrote in message
news:gs45s4ljitioplv8plc7pad469v1rh18sa@4ax.com...
> Reviewing Services on my Vista Ultimate 64-bit machine I noticed that
> the DNS Client is disabled? I have a wireless router configured to
> the laptop and to the printer and have for some times been
> experiencing disconnection problems to the laptop and loosing the
> printer connectivity completely until I unplug the router, wait, and
> plug it back in--which will restore connectivity until the next time.
>
> Shouldn't the DNS Client be enabled?
>
> Also noticed in Services I found HP Network Devices Support is set to
> Automatic (Delayed Start). Could this be what is causing the printer
> (C7280 All-in-One) to write so many (hundreds in days) .log entries in
> \Windows\Temp?
>
> Thanks.

> I have a wireless router configured to
> the laptop and to the printer and have for some times been
> experiencing disconnection problems to the laptop and loosing the
> printer connectivity completely until I unplug the router, wait, and
> plug it back in--which will restore connectivity until the next time.

What make and model are the router, printer and wifi card? Your problem is
unlikely to have anything at all to do with DNS.

In message <erl6s4p626jc6mbtmbaob56q94jirvndj8@4ax.com> Susan
<UCE@null.invalid> was claimed to have wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:34:57 -0700, Dave Warren
><dave-usenet@djwcomputers.com> wrote:
>
>>In message <ubNB7jOqJHA.1172@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> "Tom Allen"
>><me@privacy.net> was claimed to have wrote:
>>
>>>"Susan" <UCE@null.invalid> wrote in message
>>>> Shouldn't the DNS Client be enabled?
>>>
>>>The DNS Client service is not needed unless perhaps your machine is in a
>>>domain.
>>
>>It's not strictly needed, but the cache does tend to increase
>>performance if you've got more then a couple milliseconds of latency
>>between yourself and your nearest DNS server.
>
>Let me try twisting the question differently... Would enabling the
>DNS Client prevent or help prevent losing wireless printer
>connectivity at times such as rebooting the system or waking from
>sleep?

The DNS client dumps it's cache when connectivity is lost, so the DNS
client should have an effectively blank database.

In other words, as long as the printer has something resembling valid
DNS records when the computer comes back up, it won't matter.

If it doesn't have valid DNS records, I'd either fix that or leave the
DNS client alone.

>If you enable a Service that has been disabled what are the ground
>rules as to whether you would use Manual, Automatic, or Automatic
>(Delayed Start)? In the case of the DNS Client, which enable would
>you use and why?

In general, I'd recommend not adjusting the startup options of services
you don't understand. Well, that's not totally true, I make some decent
income from people who muck with things they don't understand for
reasons they can't explain when they get in over their head.

With the above being said, I'd suggest "the default setting of
'Automatic' for $95/hour, Alex"