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Following yesterdays post there are a couple of other cmdlets worth looking at if you want to dig into the DNS settings on your client machines.

Get-DnsClient wil show you the DNS relsted settings for all of your network interfaces by default.  To investigate a single interface

£> Get-DnsClient -InterfaceAlias vEthernet* | fl

InterfaceAlias                     : vEthernet (External01)
InterfaceIndex                     : 20
ConnectionSpecificSuffix           :
ConnectionSpecificSuffixSearchList : {}
RegisterThisConnectionsAddress     : True
UseSuffixWhenRegistering           : False

InterfaceAlias                     : vEthernet (Internal01)
InterfaceIndex                     : 16
ConnectionSpecificSuffix           :
ConnectionSpecificSuffixSearchList : {}
RegisterThisConnectionsAddress     : True
UseSuffixWhenRegistering           : False

You can also see the DNS servers a particular interface will use:

£> Get-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias vEthernet*

InterfaceAlias               Interface Address ServerAddresses
                             Index     Family
--------------               --------- ------- ---------------
vEthernet (External01)              20 IPv4    {192.168.0.1}
vEthernet (External01)              20 IPv6    {}
vEthernet (Internal01)              16 IPv4    {}
vEthernet (Internal01)              16 IPv6    {fec0:0:0:ffff::1, fec0:0:0:ffff::2, fec0:0:0:ffff::3}