Re: NIS reverses IP address

From: Koen Warner (koen@warner.nl)
Date: 01/07/03 

From: koen@warner.nl (Koen Warner)
Date: 7 Jan 2003 06:06:01 -0800

Joseph,

"Joseph V. Morris" <jvmorris@erols.com> wrote in message news:<avd2ij$2r1$1@bob.news.rcn.net>...
> Koen,
> Okay, that helps. NIS 4.0 on Win 2000. Yeah, that's where the problem
> was. I got a bit skittish about the LiveUpdates for that configuration
> and disabled the Automatic LiveUpdate. For a while there, everytime they
> fixed something, they seemed to break something else. So, I got in the
> habit of waiting for a week or so after an update was released and
> checking the newsgroups (both NNTP and UBB sources). I'd look for any
> subsequent identifications of problems and that's where I found this one.
> Consequently, I didn't download that LiveUpdate until I saw assurances
> that they'd put out a patch to it. It also seems to me that not everyone
> had this problem; in other words, it looks like it might have been related
> to a particular CPU or chipset.
>
> Now, if I could just remember where the problem was localized! I think it
> was in symproxysvc.exe or the Symantec Redirector, or one of the proxy
> server components, typically named something like sym*.sys . I would
> suggest that you track down each of these (I'm not on the Win 2K box at
> the moment) in Windows Explorer, right-click on the file and note the File
> Version/Build information in the Properties... selection on the resulting
> pop-up menu. Write 'em down and re-post what you find. When I can kick
> the DOOFUS off the Win 2k box, I'll check yours against mine, okay?
>
> It rather sounds as if you may, somehow, have missed the patch that fixed
> this little issue. Uh-ohhh, just noted the *.nl in your e-mail address.
> Are you running the English-language variant or the Dutch or German?

I run the Dutch language variant, although the properties sheets of
the Symantec files display that these are English (United States)
language files. Here are the files with a sym*.sys pattern. There are
none on my D:drive, where NIS is installed; the next files are all
froms C:

All sym*.sys files from Symantec:

c:/Program Files/Symantec/Symevent.sys
Size: 56,8 KB (60,0 KB on disk)
Date created: 30 december 2002
Date modified: 26 februari 2002
Version: 10.3.2.10
Language: English (United States)

c:/Winnt/System32/drivers/SymDNS.sys
Size: 10,9 KB (12,0 KB on disk)
Date created: 5 july 2002
Date modified: 31 May 2002
Version: 4.5.2.1
Language: English (United States)

c:/Winnt/System32/drivers/Symevent.sys
Size: 56,8 KB (60,0 KB on disk)
Date created: 30 december 2002
Date modified: 26 februari 2002
Version: 10.3.2.10
Language: English (United States)

c:/Winnt/System32/drivers/SymFW.sys
Size: 69,1 KB (72,0 KB on disk)
Date created: 5 juli 2002
Date modified: 31 mei 2002
Version: 4.5.2.1
Language: English (United States)

c:/Winnt/System32/drivers/SymIDS.sys
Size: 11,9 KB (12,0 KB on disk)
Date created: 5 juli 2002
Date modified: 31 mei 2002
Version: 4.5.2.1
Language: English (United States)

c:/Winnt/System32/drivers/SymNDIS.sys
Size: 32,5 KB (36,0 KB on disk)
Date created: 5 juli 2002
Date modified: 31 mei 2002
Version: 4.5.2.1
Language: English (United States)

c:/Winnt/System32/drivers/SymReDrv.sys
Size: 14,2 KB (16,0 KB on disk)
Date created: 5 juli 2002
Date modified: 31 mei 2002
Version: 4.5.2.1
Language: English (United States)

c:/Winnt/System32/drivers/SymTDI.sys
Size: 155 KB (156 KB on disk)
Date created: 5 juli 2002
Date modified: 31 mei 2002
Version: 4.5.2.1
Language: English (United States)

Thanks for trying to help out.

Regards,

Koen Warner
koen@warner.nl