Am I correct in assuming that this persists through reboots?
>>> On 7/17/2009 at 4:02 PM, Al Puzzuoli <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who has responded.
> Tried disabling IPV6, the problem remains. I've done checks for viruses
> and malware, everything comes up clean. The machine is using local DNS
> servers, and the default hosts file.
>
> At this point, I feel like the most satisfying solution would be a big
> hammer but alas, I'm guessing that wouldn't go over very well. I'm
> tempted to just do a clean reinstall of the OS, I'm betting there's a
> good chance I wouldn't see this problem again, but I hesitate to do that
> without understanding what's going on in the first place.
>
> Al
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Utter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:26 PM
> To: Al Puzzuoli
> Subject: RE: [MSUNAG] Dnscache in Svchost using over 60% of CPU?
>
> You can try the suggestion in the last post in this thread:
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/th
> read
> /d2a2ad2d-a406-410c-9b7a-e22104fd2e2e
>
> if that works I'll let you pass it along to NAG, but I didn't want to
> spam them a solution I hadn't tested.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Jeff Utter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Al Puzzuoli
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 2:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MSUNAG] Dnscache in Svchost using over 60% of CPU?
>
> Having an issue on a Vista Business box. Long story short, a case of
> very high CPU utilization. I tracked the culprit down to the DNS client
> service (Dnscache), but that's only half the battle. Now that I know
> Dnscache is the offending service, what to do about it? This machine is
> part of my domain. As far as I know, no other machines on the domain
> are exhibiting the same issue. I tried doing an ipconfig /flushdns, but
> that didn't matter.
>
> Anyone have ideas as to what might cause this and what I could do to fix
> it?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Al Puzzuoli
>
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