re: What I really hate about DNS- and DHCP-Client-Services

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:36:06 GMT

Hi Nils,

shouldn't write posts that late - I first had it the correct way, then wanted to make sure and checked on my own machine. However I'm in a dual boot configuration right now - XP was in German, Vista in English, and I'm 99% working with Vista. So I mixed it up and thought that I'm on a German OS, woundered and changed the hypens .

Never mind - thanks for letting me know and I'm changing the post now.

The other thing you mention - yes - I know I could use the service name, but for whatever reason I'm just to lazy to keep them in mind and don't mind typing - so I'm usually using the Services displayname. No clue why - my brain prefers it this way - and there are more important things to remember.

I still don't understand why they are "semi-translating" certain things which are totally useless. Currently the name is english but the hypenation is german. Feels like eating ice-cream to fast: brainfreeze - outch.

re: What I really hate about DNS- and DHCP-Client-Services

Nils Kaczenski — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:32:26 GMT

Hi Ulf,

it's exactly the other way round: The German spelling uses the hyphen, the English spelling does not.

And - why don't you just use the service name instead of the display name? "net stop dnscache" stops the DNS Client service on every machine, no matter what its language is. You can find out the service names in Control Panel or by just querying "sc query" (or, more sophisticated: sc query|find /i "_name"). The most common names will surely burn into your mind quickly. ;-)

HTH & regards, Nils