RAS Service Broadcasts Name Query Every Two Minutes

• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0

SYMPTOMS

The Remote Access Service (RAS) queries for the following name every two minutes by default:

   JSPNRMPTGSBSSDIR

CAUSE

The name JSPNRMPTGSBSSDIR is announced regularly and is a normal occurrence from a Windows NT Server or Workstation computer running the Windows NT Remote Access Service (RAS).

WORKAROUND

In some cases, a WINS or DNS server may be across a dial-up router on the network. This behavior may cause unnecessary traffic across these interfaces. A trace from Network Monitor may show queries for the name JSPNRMPTGSBSSDIR.

Use one of the following methods to prevent this name query from being broadcast:

• Create an LMHOSTS file with the following entry:

        x.x.x.x   JSPNRMPTGSBSSDIR #PRE
  
     where x.x.x.x is an IP address associated with the RAS server's network
     interface card.
  
     -or-
  
  

• If you are using DNS, create an A record for JSPNRMPTGSBSSDIR in the domain for which the DNS server is authoritative.

  NOTE: The client (resolver) must have the domain name field in TCPIP/DNS/Domain name populated with the domain name that the A record is created in on the DNS server. If there are entries listed in the domain suffix search order of the client, this must be the first domain listed.