If you're a unix guy, check out bind version 9.2.2 or above. it allows you to setup internal and external views of your dns. that way you can specify your internal ip's to use your 10. address and all other ip's to use your publick address for resolve... works great!
On Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:52 PM, Patrick Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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/
