Hello Lovely people, got a brain picker here for you. Of late, because of the silly wireless configuration here, sometimes I lose connection to the internet on this xp machine, usually if I have not been on it for say 10 mins. Then when i return and go on the net, it can't resolve anything.

Now up till now, I have been rebooting which, frankly, is a pain, so I nosed about a bit, had a little think, found the services of which I am familiar on windows 95 and 98 OS, and had a snoot about, and restarted the DNS client service, and hey presto, problem solved.

Now I looked on the net, and found a bit saying that this service is not needed, and is recomended disabled, and claims that all that happens is that you go further upstream to resolve names.

Can anyone give me a little more info on this and it's implications for security, stealthand general PC health please.

Jonnypants Snootlefork