techSunday, March 19, 2006
desktop shortcut to resart the DNS client
I described the problem and solution in an earlier post. The next step of course is to make a desktop shortcut to take care of everything instead of manually restarting the service from the computer management tool. So I made a batch file to do it. Here are the contents
That's it, it works. Now whenever I sit down to a stale windows session in which the dhcp client is probably not functioning properly, I can just hit the icon on my desktop to restart it. It doesn't even matter if the dhcp client does happen to be working - there's no harm in restarting it.
I had to edit this post because when I first wrote it, I mistakenly said that it was the DHCP client (I wrote it in a rush or something) and had dhcp instead of dnscache in the batch file listing. Now it's right.
net stop dnscache
net start dnscache
That's it, it works. Now whenever I sit down to a stale windows session in which the dhcp client is probably not functioning properly, I can just hit the icon on my desktop to restart it. It doesn't even matter if the dhcp client does happen to be working - there's no harm in restarting it.
I had to edit this post because when I first wrote it, I mistakenly said that it was the DHCP client (I wrote it in a rush or something) and had dhcp instead of dnscache in the batch file listing. Now it's right.
