On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jim Rosenberg wrote: > 1. It looks in its list of Network Objects to see if you've given a > name to this IP address. If it finds one, it will use this one, > regardless of other methods of resolving the address. > > 2. It queries the IP address in question trying to resolve its > Netbios name. > > 3. It queries DNS to reverse-resolve the IP address.
.. if you have WINS configured or use the the novell client it uses these methods too. => STANDARD Microsoft technics of name resolution -> be as noisy as possible name resolution := computer names + user names + services + ... Regards, Achim Dreyer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Dreyer, UNIX System Administrator and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
