Can I log into a Domain account without pointing DNS to the domain controller?

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Published on 2012-11-26T01:00:09Z Indexed on 2012/11/26 5:06 UTC
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My situation is as follows:

I have a Windows 2003 Domain Controller which is also my DNS server. I have 10 Windows XP Pro PC's which all login to domain accounts. I am about the forward my DNS requests to OPENDNS so I can regulate web access but I have (2) PC's that I would like to keep unregulated. I manually changed their DNS server IP to (8.8.8.8) which worked but that caused my login to fail (by creating a 3 minute delay before it would let me get to the desktop) when I change the DNS IP back to the IP of the Domain Controller, everything works smoothly.

Question is, how can I continue to login to the domain but have a different DNS path...is this possible ?

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