RE: [IMail Forum] is there a FAQ on Relaying / Locking down?

[Len Conrad]

>I thought in the chain of resolving a name your box would query the host
>file first, then move to sources outside of itself, like the DNS server it
>is pointing to.

That's right, even MS OS's query localhost's hosts file, just like 
*nix does, before querying DNS.

Len


http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 & W2K
http://IMGate.MEIway.com  : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways


Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html 
to be removed from this list.

An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/