Should find it in there : WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS Or WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS
----------------------------------- Vincent Toussaint Sys. Admin, Hybride [EMAIL PROTECTED] (450) 227-4245 www.hybride.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Ouellet Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] LDAP acces with external tool Unfortunately when I was hired, I was hired because of my expertise with Linux/Unix, since then our Windows guru left and I am now to be the windows guru, which I am not. Where and how is called that host file in windows 2000 ( aka /etc/hosts ) Thanx Brad, I'll check on that solution.. is not quite ellegant but until our DNS problem is solved, this could to the trick. Brad Morgan a �crit : >>My question is why IMail don't use 127.0.0.1 for self service querying? >> >>Is there a reason for that. >> >> >> >I can't answer this question but my guess is that since under normal >circumstances, the name resolves to the local IP address, this optimization >isn't necessary. > >Have you tried adding an entry to the server's hosts file so that when it >queries DNS for its own IP address, it gets the local address? You could >even resolve the name to 127.0.0.1 if you'd prefer. > >Regards, > >Brad > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Patrick Ouellet - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrateur des serveurs reseaux Informatique - Poste 130 Microtec Technologies inc. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GPG Key ID & Fingerprint: 0x4D4B1AF0 BCC0 2F96 1596 BBF9 CEB5 5576 18CF 5C9F 4D4B 1AF0 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
