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A free ADMX browser or comparison tool for IT administrators. Search policies, find registry keys, and see exactly what each setting writes to the Windows Registry. Or compare two GPO backups to see exactly what has changed between them.

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Turn off smart multi-homed name resolution

Specifies that a multi-homed DNS client should optimize name resolution across networks. The setting improves performance by issuing parallel DNS, link local multicast name resolution (LLMNR) and NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) queries across all networks. In the event that multiple positive responses are received, the network binding order is used to determine which response to accept.

If you enable this policy setting, the DNS client will not perform any optimizations. DNS queries will be issued across all networks first. LLMNR queries will be issued if the DNS queries fail, followed by NetBT queries if LLMNR queries fail.

If you disable this policy setting, or if you do not configure this policy setting, name resolution will be optimized when issuing DNS, LLMNR and NetBT queries.

Registry Information

VendorMicrosoft
ProductDns Client
CategoryDNS Client
Applies toComputer Configuration
Supported onWindows8
Registry Key[HKLM]SoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTDNSClient
Value NameDisableSmartNameResolution
TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled value1
Disabled value0