> Maybe the only workaround is write a DNS server ? I would say: install a DNS server. There are free one. Of course you may write one using ICS. Probably a lot of work.
> Or can you specify in windows several DNS servers? Yes, you can specify several. Go to your network properties, select IP protocol, select properties, select advanced, select DNS. You have the parameters. You can setup several DNS servers and other options. Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author for the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilfried Mestdagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ICS support mailing" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [twsocket] finding a local domain > Hello Francois, > >> The problem is an MX query problem, isn't it ? > > Yes. Until now I delivered the server only to customars who have their > own DNS server. I tell them to add an entry in the hosts file of the > machine of their mail server with the IP address of my server pointing > to the new domain, and to add an MX record with this domain to their DNS > server. No problem until now. > > No I have 2 without DNS server, dont know if their is a workaround :( > > Maybe again example to clarify: > > suppose my LAN. I have no NT server here, only workstations, so also not > a DNS server. I called my workgroup 'wilfried.internal', run an SMTP > server on a machine called 'mail'. On another machine called 'sms' I run > the other mail server. I make an entry in the host file of 'mail' > 'sms.wilfried.internal' with the IP of machine 'sms'. > > Now I want the mail server (on machine 'mail') to have mail for > @sms.wilfried.internal delivered to the smtp server > 'sms.wilfried.internal'. > > I use now Hermes to test this, but the MX problem is 'the' problem, it > can never find the 'sms.wilfried.internal' domain :( Unles there is some > workaround. > > Maybe the only workaround is write a DNS server ? If this is the only > workaroun then should this one be also a DNS client to lookup in the > other DNS server(s) ? Or can you specify in windows several DNS servers? > Because then it is probably a more simple server... Sorry I'm not an IT > guy so I dont know very mutch about this stuff :( > > --- > Rgds, Wilfried > http://www.mestdagh.biz > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
