Hostname given to XP clients

From: Colcord, Aaron <AColcord(at)rwbaird.com>
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 15:57:57 EST

Here is the situation. We have 3-6 webservers behind a loadbalancer.(behind a firewall too) A Site is set up with Windows Authentication only. It appears on Internet Explorer running on Windows XP when credentials are requested that the hostname of the server is sent. It appears in the upper left part of the authentication box saying 'connection to
<servername>.<domain>'. Now the actual dialog box says 'Connecting to
<host>.<domain>'. So if the name of the server was web19 and the site being
hosted was 'mytestsite.somedomain.com'. What happens is you would see a box (in XP only) where the upper left say 'connection to web19.somedomain.com' and the middle portion of the dialog box would say 'connecting to mytestsite.somedomain.com'. Older clients like Nt4 and 2000 will only give the 'connecting to mytestsite.somedomain.com'

We don't want the servername given out and would rather have the authentication box say in the upper left 'connecting to mytestsite.somedomain.com'. How do we turn this off? or prevent the servername being given out.

Aaron Colcord
Web/Database Administrator, MCSE, MCDBA
R.W. Baird & Co.

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