Russ Foster <russ_foster@comcast.net> wrote in
news:-46dnbBeqL7J91qiRVn-hg@comcast.com:

> Oddly enough, yes. Which makes me wonder what, exactly, does the
> DNS-client service do...?

See,
http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/win2...htm#DNS_Client

I think the DNS client service ends up trying to cache the entire hosts
file in memory. For large hosts file, this can chew up a lot of memory and
cause system slow downs.

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