I don't think that that has ever been hidden info.

Exchange, since at least 5.5, has had the option of using different DNS servers 
for outgoing resolution; somewhat necessitating it having a different resolver.

(This doesn't mean that I defend them fixing things they didn't tell about.)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:09 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Carol Fee <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the SMTP doesn't use the operating system resolver, where does it 
> find the DNS servers that it uses ?

  Only Microsoft knows for sure, but my guess is that Exchange gets the IP 
address(es) of your full-service resolvers from the OS, but then uses its own 
internal stub resolver implementation.

-- Ben



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