Network Name slowing failover of clusters

So after building a recent cluster I was looking at time it took to failover and failback. I noticed that it took a long time to bring the “SQL Network Name” resource online. After doing some searches on the internet I found this:

http://blog.rollback.hu/2009/03/slow-cluster-failover-waiting-for-network-name-in-online-pending-state/

If you uncheckRegister this connection’s address in DNS” for the Network Properties of the Client Access / Public Network interface it would go to a few seconds to fire this up this resource.

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