> Whatever that means... The NSLOOKUP timeouts told me what your first four DNS servers were in Windows. But that's neither here nor there now.
> I've never understood this DNS stuff. I was getting that impression. :)) > Well it is a web server also, hosting several domains. Each domain has > to have an entry in the DNS manager, no? Therefore DNS *IS* running on > this IIS 5 box. If you are running a DNS server on the box, you won't have to *extrapolate* that it's running from other factors--you should *know* whether it's running by checking Services for 'DNS Server.' But you're confused about WHY you may be running DNS on the box. IIS 5 does not consult a local DNS server to find out what web sites it's hosting. It already knows, through direct configuration, whether it is to answer for certain HTTP requests and where to get corresponding web pages. IOW, a server that is only a web server not only does not require, but generally does not run DNS for performance reasons. Requirements change if your web server is also a mail server, since mail servers do require DNS lookups before they can send mail to remote servers. But it is *not* necessary to run that DNS on the *same* box as the mail server--there simply needs to be *a* DNS server available. If your only other available DNS servers are across a very slow wire or are overtaxed, or you know that the benefits to IMail of having a DNS server "close to home" will not be undercut by DNS' own resource demands, it is certainly possible to run it on the same box--but it is not mandatory. So, if you still think that it's necessary to have DNS running on this box, you *must* make sure that DNS is configured correctly. If it's not, IMail will not get info when it needs it. And "correctly" means only one thing: it has to be able to return MX records for any domain on the Internet, *every time*. It can do this through either recursion or forwarders (look these up in DNS Server Help). Doesn't matter which (well, it does for performance, but later for that), it just needs to be consistent! -Sandy 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/
